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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1127, 8 March 1872, Page 2

The steamer Murray left last evening for Westport and Nelson. # The paddle-steamer Charles Edward is expected here on Saturday, and will leave in the evening for Hokitika. She will return -^ — r^j mr n » y »f».w np frffl r t;jtmd Nelson on Monday evening at nine o ciockT The Mary van Every, Captain Dawson, from Dunedin, was towed over the bar last evening. She left Dunedin at 8 a.m on FrHay, Ist instant, cleared Otago Heads at lpm same day, and experienced very rough -weather as far as the Brothers, in the Straits. From there hod light baffling winds until arrival off the port on Wednesday night. She passed the schooner Eaiuma on Tuesday afternoon off Steven's Island. She brings a cargo of produce, which .will be sold by auction on the wharf at noon to-day, by her agents, Messrs D. Maclean and Co. Referring to some recent illustrations of . the influence of protection on shipping interests, the Melbourne Argus satorically says : — Instances of the beneficial effects of protection are multiplying, and one particularly gratifying ease in point has been communicated to us. It seems that Messrs M'Meckan and Blackwood's steamer Aldinga required new boilers, and the contract was let to a Melbourne house. As boiler plates are admitted free of duty in this colony, one would suppose that this house would be in a remarkably good position to undertake a work of this character ; but instead of that being the case, they find it pore economical to chip the plates to Adelaide, where they are converted into boilers, -and sent back to Melbourne to be placed in the vessel. It is stated that the same thing bad been done in the case of the Royal Shepherd, another Adelaide boat which required repairs. Tim intelligence ought to be peculiarly gratifying to the boilermakers of the city of Melbourne, whose strong protective proclivities are well known. The trial of the working model of Dr Cun* ningham's canoe ''uly came off in the outer harbor off Drysdale, and the particulars are given by the Qeelong Advertiser : — " A fair breeze was blowing, and it was thought advisable to reef the immense mainsail, but as it was found that the canoe scarcely heeled over at all, one by one the reefs were let out until the small 12ft canoe was surmounted by a cloud of canvas, containing Almost 180 square feet, and even with this the heel was not more than about three degrees. The boat was fairly tried, beating several miles up to windward, her strongest point, of course, being while running free. In larger boats of the kind it is intended to use the centre-board system. Dr Cunningham intends to apply for a patent, and in the meantime be challenges any boat of the same size on Victorian waters. Probably he*. next performance will be a journey either to Melbourne or the wre-sk.