EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1170, 29 April 1872, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

10, from Melbourne Mary Camming, from Melbourne Magnet, from Melbourne Murray, from Nelson Kennedy, from Nelson Gothenburg, from Melbourne Albion, from Melbourne Tararua, from Melbourne Wallabi, from Wanganui VEB3KL3 IN FORT. Dispatch, tug-steamer The port has been aingulariy bare during the last few days. There were neither amvals nor departure* yesterday or Saturday. The a s. Kennedy may be exnected to put ia an appearance to-eay, and will sail without delay for Westport and Nelson. She arrived in Hokitika yesterday about 11 a.m., but grounded in going up tho river and was some time before she got off. Mr James Aabbury, owner of the yachts Livonia and Cambria, and Mr T. Brassey, M.P. for Hastings, have been elected Commodore and Vice Commodore of the London Yacht Club. Mr Ashbury is building a aixty ton cutter, with which he hopes to contend successfully in the Thames races. The contract for tho two iron-clad frigates Metz and Sedan, for the German navy, has been definitely concluded with Samuda Broa. The papera state that the price v between four and five millions of thalers, or about seven hundred thousand pounds sterling. _ A revolution in ocean steaming seems impending, which will bring in its train many changes in social and mercantile affairs all over the world. The main cause of these changes will bo the building of steel boats, propelled by steam produced by liquid fuel. Engineers and shipbuilders predict that at nodwtant date hardly a ship constructed of malleable iron will bo found on the ocean. ; and that steel will be the material that will be uaed in the shipbuilding of the future. The improvement will materially diminish the weight, while it adds to the strength and buoyancy of seagoing vessels, and can hardly fail to effect as great a revolution in shipbuilding as iron did when it was substituted for wood.