EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 569, 9 September 1869, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Persevere, for Hokitika j 1 hhd eggs, Woolcnck ; 15 tons coal, Maclean. The p.s. Charles Edward left Nelson yesterday, and is announced to leave this port on Saturday for Wostport, Nelson, Wangauui, and the M:u;uk;ui. The Yarra was, from stress of weather and the loss of anchors and chains, off Okarito, compelled to run for cither Hokitika or Greymonth. C.iptaiu Kerley acted wisely in selecting the porb at which he was laden to return to, aud had jt not been for i most unfortunate circumstance occurring, she would have arrived at the wharf safely. She, yesterday morning, crossed the bar without any difficulty, but on rounding the bend to the river was met by au outward sea from the lagoon, causing her to caut her head towards the North S[.it. Strenuous efforts were made by Captain Kerley to keep her off the north bench, but they proved unavailing, and she landed on the beach inside the channel and below whore the crate is placed. It is a pity she thould so suddenly have come to grief, as we perceive by advertisement she is to-day to be sold by auction. Her cargo which she had on board for Okarito was all landed at low water torday, some of it slightly damaged, and it is not at all improbable another vessel will have to be called into requisition to convey it to its destination. There is one thing certain, that to maintain an efficient steamboat coasting service we require a far better class of boats than those hailing from Hokitika, aud we are given to understand that such steain}>oats will not for the future be allowed to proceed further than immediately outside the harbor. — We*t Cuad Times of yesterday. The favorite s s. John P-enu, it will be observed, says the JS r ekon Examiner, is announced to return to Nelson on an early date. It is, its we announced some time since, the intention of her owner, Captain Johnson, to place the John Perm permanently on the West Coast, Nelson, aud Mauukau tradj. The Cerberus, an arinour^plated monitor, lately built for service in Australia, is to be pailjd o.it to that country under a jury-ri;;, so that the hypothesis that a monitor could not be made to cross the ocean will receive a new disproof should this vessel arrive safely in Australia, which tLere is little reason to doubt. The Cerberus is, built on the plan described by Mr Heed, two or three years *yo, at tho Inatrtatiuuuf Civil' Euglueers, 111 the discussion upon Mr Bourne's paper "On Ships of War," and is an admitted copy of Ericsson's monitor, except that the openings into the interior aie all made through au elevated breastwork which runs aloug the middle of the ship, and through which, also, the two turrets are carried. Such an addition Ericsson maintains to be unnecessary, while it increases the weight and furnishes a lar^e target to the enemy. The monitors which crossed the Atlantic aud sailed round Cape Horn hail no siieh breastwork, and in those cases the openings through which access was gained to th«; interior were in the tops of the turrets themselves. TLe construction of monitors of any kind is certainly ft step in the right direction. But it would have been much better if, the questionable "improvement" Mr Reed has introduced had been omitted. An excellent sketch of the Cerberuß is given in the Illustrated London News of July 10. An order was received at Chatham Dockyard on the 12th of July from the Admiralty, directing the Cerberus to proceed with her relit in readiness for commission, as she is requhed to he despatched forthwith to Melbourne. The Cerberus was accordingly removed into one of the vacant docks at Chatham, where the work of preparing her for sea will 'be carried on with all despatch. The cost of u"ttiug out the Cerberus will be defrayed by the Australian G o vernment. — A rgua.