EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 271, 22 November 1870, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Aquilla, for Levuka : 22,000 shingles, 10,000 feet; timber, G-. Loverock; 10 cases galvanised iron, 2 casks white lead, 13 cases drapery, 1 case mustard, 1 case glass, 1 case ale, 2 cases wine, T. H. Hall.—R. Eaton, agent.

The brigantine Flirt arrived in harbour last night, from Lyttelton, with a cargo as per imports.' The following is a report of her paspage : _The Flirt left Lyttelton on Monday ' night, the 14th inst.; had light tmd variable winds till Thursday night, the 17th, when she got a good breeze from the southward, which carried her round the East Cape, which was passed on Friday night, the 18th, at 10 o'clock; was becalmed off White Island all day on Saturday, and Saturday night; on Sunday, the wind veered to the north-west, dead ahead; rounded Cape Colville at 4 p.m. on Monday, with the wind north, which she .carried till • her arrival. Sighted a schooner, supposed to be the Tawera, bound east, on ■ Sunday forenoon, and a- ketch on Monday afternoon inside Mercury Island, supposed to be the Eagle, bound south. The Dancer of Ttjeeet Ships.—-There is no necessity for turret ships to be masted. The latest Admirality designs are for vessels of this kind without masts. They will, therefore, not be liable to be capsized like the Captain; and the fire of their guns will not be impeded by the masts and rigging. It may be that the Monarch, or an improved Monarch, will furnish a type of a sea-going, crsiising, masted turret-vessel that can be relied on in respect of stability as well as of fighting. But even if this should not be so, the advantages of the turret system are so many, so great, and so patent that we must have them, if not with, at all events without, masts. The loss of the Captain must only be taken to imply that one particular application of the turret principle is dangerous.