EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 690, 21 June 1870, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne : 2198 oz 6 dwt gold, Bank of New Zealand ; 2403 oz 15 dwt 9 gr, Bank of New South Wales. Per Jane Ann, for Kaiapoi : *36 tons coal, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co.

The Kate Conley was loading at Melbourne for this port on the 6th inst. The s,B. Gothenburg is expected to arrive from Melbourne direct to-day or to-morrow. She will be despatched on the usual round of the ports, taking her departure from the Bluff for Melbourne. The s.s. Claud Hamilton, Captain Underwood, from Melbourne via .the Bluff and New Zealand ports, arrived in the roadstead early on Monday morning. She left Hobson's Bay at 2.30 p.m. on the 6th ; passed the Heads at 6, and Cape Schanck at 8 p.tn.; and Swan Island at 5 p.m. the following day. Experienced fine weather during the run across. Made the S.W. Cape at daylight on the 11th, and entered the Bluff the same day at 9 p.m. Sailed on Sunday for Dunedin, arriving there next day, and left Port Chalmers at 1.30 p.m. on the 14th, arriving at Lytteltou at 8.20 a.m. on the 15th. Left next day and made the round of the ports, arriving here as above. Yesterday, at 1 p.m., she was waited upon by the p.s. Dispatch, which put on board of her 17 passengers, and over 3000oz of gold, for Melbourne, and brought ashore eight passengers. The Claud Hamilton left immediately for Hokitika. The schooner Excelsior, for this port, soiled from Fort Chalmers on the 13th inafcani. The fires reported to have been seen on the Auckland Islands on Jan. 6, 1870, by the captain of the Ann Duthie, on her homeward j trip from Melbourne, seem to be accounted for by the following facts. The schooner Oreti arrived afc Port Chalmers on March 3, 3870, from the Auckland Mauds, having left the group on Feb. 23, 1870. Tha schooner had been on a whaling expedition, and had ; cruised about the Auckland Islands for three months. During that time the captain, Beaston, visited the various places at which stores had been left' for castaways. This he did in consequence of having discovered certain human and other remains. Captain. Gibson had an opportunity of examining Captain Beaston with reference to his cruise to the Auckland Islands, and the latter said he felt certain there was not a living person on the Islands at the time he left, Feb 23, 1870. The fires which the captain of the Ann Duthie reports having seen on Jan. 6 . are likely to have been caused by the men belonging to the Oreti. It will be remembered that the Matoaka sailed from Lyttelton on May 13, 1869. We regret to say that the fears entertained for the safety of Captain Davidson, of the schooner Bonnie Lass, are confirmed. The body of the unfortunate man was discovered by two lads yesterday morning, lying on the rocks undor the breastwork. The police and watermen were engaged until a late hour on Monday night, and also yesterday morning, dragging for the body. Dr Rouse, who saw the body, gave it as his opinion that, from its appearance, the man was drowned, and that he hai not, as some supposed, died of exhaustion on the rocks. — Lyttelton Times, 15th inst. • Mr Baxter lately made an inspection of the Government Dockyards. At Deptford he found that there was a stock of essence of ' beef to last for seven' years and a half ; also four years' stock of pickles in hand; then they had six years and a half s supply of white wines; and how many years supply of candles for the transports did the committee suppose they had ? Why, ten years' supply. The right hon. gentleman opposite, who had been so many years at the Admiralty, and knew so much, about the navy, would probably be enabled to enlighten them about some of those things. There was an item called "foot-pieces for stockings" — some covering, he supposed, for the men's feet in cold weather. That must have been a nice little job in past times ; for he had found no leas than 50 years' supply of those articles in stock. Yet the right hon. gentleman talked of their starving the navy, and said they had no cloth, no clothing for the marines. Good gracious ! Of blue cloth, No. 2, they had seven years' supply ; of jackets, twelve years' supply; they had supplies of comforters for three years and a half, ef striped shirting for five years, and of towelling for seven years. In his simplicity — and he was ashamed to confess it — seeing the high price he was paying for towelling, he broke up the monopoly of that article last year, and got it at a cheaper rate, little thinking they had then probably more than six years' supply in hand. They had 2000 anchors in hand. It was proposed to sell at various prices— some not being worth more than old iron — about 1100 of them, and there would still remain 900 anchors for her Majesty's ships. An aero-steam engine, invented by Mr George Warsop, a working machine at Nottingham, is described in the Times. The essential feature of the arrangement is the addition of an air-pump to an ordinary highpressure steam-engine. Air condensed from this pump is driven into a tube, which is carried at first within the exhaust steam pipe, next in a spiral course within the funnel, and finally enteres at the lower part of the boiler, where it terminates in a large circle, pierced by numerous very fine openingjs, from which the compressed and heated air bubbles up through the water, imparting heat to it, breaking-up its cohesion, and, so to speak, preparing for its ebullition. The experiments, which were made some time since ay Messrs Easton and Amos, showed that this invention saved 47 per cent of fuel. It has now been applied to marine engines, and an experiment has been made with the Fox, an iron screw steamer which has been built for the coasting trada It was found that the system prevented "priming "—a result which resembles the boiling over of a saucepan, Arrange-

ments have been made to compare for several months the performances of the Pox with those of another vessel belonging to the same owners, but to which the invention has not been applied. The Times says the system has as yet only been made profitably applicable to high-pressure boilers, but the inventor feels sure of being able to apply it also to condensing engines. If it should be found to fulfil only half its present promise, it will effect an annual saving the amount of which it would be almost impossible to calculate, and its use would become a matter of necessity wherever the profits of manufacture are curtailed by the influence of competition. No merchant steamer could dispense with it, and, by enabling ships of war to keep the sea, it would become of equal importance to the statesman. — Public Opinion.