IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1266, 20 August 1872, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Garibaldi, from Lyttelton : 100 bales chaff, 232 sacks oats, 15 tons flour, Maclean and Co ; 60 bags malt, Strike ; 2 cases biscuits, Glenn Bros. Per Canterbury, from Lyttelton: o5 sacks bran, 66 do oats, 100 bales chaff, 44 coils rope, 10 kegs butter, Nancarrow, Henderaon and Co ; 100 kegs butter, 23 sacks grass seed, Orr and Co ; 10 kegs butter, 4 cases bacon, M Levy ; 11 do do, D Maclean and Co ; 300 sacks oats, Glenn Brothers ; 2 ploughs, 3 sets harrows, 6 packages, 1 cose, M«GiIL Per Jupiter, from Lyttelton : 230 sacks oats, 80 sacks bran and pollard, D Maclean and Co ; 209 sacks oats, Glenn Bros ; 2 cases eggs, order. EXPORTS. Per Charles Edward :1 For Westport-G hhds ale, 6 quarter-casks do, Strike and Blackmore; 46 sacks coke, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co. For Nelson— loo sacks coke, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co. j

The ketch Jupiter, Ramsay master, which arrived last evening, left Lyttelton on the 7th instant, sod made a good ran round the coa»t.» She made the bar in the afternoon, and was brought in by the ps Dispatch in the evening. . The steamer Kennedy, from Nelson, arrived at Hokitika yesterday, having on ■ board the Melbourne cargo and passengers transhipped from the Tararua. She w^l probably reach Greymouth this forenoon. The brigantine Northern Light, which put „to sea .during the recent severe weather, again arrived at Hokitika roadstead on Sunday, and was expected to bo towed in yesterday. The ketch Venture, Brown master, went on to Cape Campbell Reef on the night of the 10th instant She was beached three miles ■oath of PUxboarne, and it is expected she will become ft total wreck. All bands were saved.

It ia probable, fsaya a London contempoiary, that before long the usual notice to be ; seen on board steamers, "No smoking abaft the funnel allowed," will have U> be discontinued, owing to the absence of any funnel abaft which smoking can be prohibited. Smokers will be simply requested to discharge their smoke into the water. Two Anstri&n marine officers and a marine engineer, according to the Swiss Times, have discovered by united experiments a method of conveying away under water the smoke from the steam engine, instead of through a funnel into the air. They make use of ' double ventilators, which compress the smoke and force it overboard. For propelling these ventilators they employ, according to circumstances, either water-power— that is, the pressure of the water between the ' surface of the water and the place where the apparatus ia fixed— or, for smaller vessels, steam power. Tne advantages of this discovery are the greater security of ships of "' war, as in armor-plated ships.the only vulnerabls part, the funnel, will be taken away. Other advantages will be the saving of space now occupied by the passage of the funnel through every deck, as well as security against danger from fire ; complete regulation of the draught, and in consequence of that, the application of a method for cony suming the smoke, thereby effecting a saving ' of fuel; and finally, better ventilation of the boiler. For submarine and torpedo ships and monitors this discovery will be of great value, as these last will be rendered quite invulnerable. The trials that have been made have, it is alleged, resulted in a complete 'S^wwoesa, even to the smallest details. A recent telegram reported th»t the second mate of the Maori, whilst on her passage to Donedin on her last trip, was lost over- ' Iwsffd. After the steamer left Timaro, at seven o'clock p.m. on the 10th, she called at Oamaru at midnight ; danger signal! being shown, she proceeded to sea at 1 a.m. without communicating with the shore— the wind was then south-east, and a nasty roll setting in— aneroid down to 28.90. After sailiug, the wind chopped round to the south, then into south-west strong, and when off Shag Beef, at 445 a,m, the forestaysail blew adrift, and the second mate (Alfred James) and a seaman (Robert Pearson) went to the forecastle to secure it ; in doing so, the vessel took a plunge in the nasty snort chop of a sea caused by the change of wind, shipped a heavy one, and washed James overboard. Pearson was thrown down . underneath the windlass, and heard James cry out from opposite tho forecbains. Lifebuoys were thrown out in hopes that the poor fellow would get one. The vessel was kept cruising about for three hours, but no signs of James were observed. The night was dark and rainy* and with a heavy sea on, it was not safe to lower a boat at the time of the accident. The engines wero eased, and her speed thus lessened as a precaution for the safety of the men forward. James was a native of Bridport, England, aged 31, and leaves a wife and family in Dunedin to mourn his loss. He was eight cr nine years in vessels on the coast, and previous to joining the -Maori was an officer in the Beautiful Star and Wainui steamers, and highly respected by all who knew him.