IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1409, 5 February 1873, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Wa'lace, from Nelson : 1 bale, 1 truss, Thompson, Smith, and Barkley ; 1 truss, Murphy ; 1 truss, Parfitt ; 9 cases bacon, Woolcock ; 15 cases bacon, Kennedy Bros ; 7 kegs butter, Magoffin ; 2 packages sluice forks, 10 kegs nails, Forsyth and Masters ; 1 case, Lewis ; 1 parcel, Watkins ; 6 cases plums, 1 case apples, 1 case peaches, Woolcock ; 6 kegs butter, Magoffin ; 1 bale leather, Mailler ; 4 cases eggs, 4 kegs batter, Nancarrow; 1 box, Union Bank ; 1 case fruit, Harper ; 2 ccops poultry, 1 box, 1 bag, Rudman; 10 kegs butter, 3 cases bacon, 3 cases cheese, Ecclesfield ; 10 kegs butter, Duff; K kegs butter, 2 cases bacon, Linton ; 4 cases bacon, Churches ; 42 cases fruit, Todd ; 1 bale leather, Johnson ; 10 cases fruit, 2 case: eggs, Simon.

Yesterday morning the p. s. Wallace arrivec from Nelson and Westport. On the after noon's tide the s.s. Kennedy sailed for West port, and the p.s. Wallace for Hokitika. The yacht Red Jacket took two prizes (Ll( and L 5 in value) in yacht matches at Wei lington regatta, on January 23. The Marlborough Press thus notices th( collision of the s. s. Hangitoto with the wharf, when she called at Picton the other day : - " The vessel came on with such force, thai before the way she had on her was lost, sh< ran steam on direct into the new wharf, causing a crash sufficiently loud to lead tc the belief that the whole of the structure was being crushed up. The resistance the steamer met in running into the wharf stopped her career, and, after a little maneuvering, she was made fast at a proper berth. Upon examining the wharf after the accident, it was found that the steamer could not have struck it fairer had the captain tried to test its strength by a direct collision, as the wharf was struck very near the centre, nearly in a line with the lamp-post between two supporting middle piles. The outer stringer was cut through, the lamp-post torn up, about fifteen feet of the planking was splintered, aud two stringers were more or less damaged, besides some other injury not so apparent. It is said that one of the piles is damaged to such an extent as to make it useless. The vessel herself did not sustain the , slightest damage, and beyond some scratches on the paint, it could not be seen thac she had been near anything more substantial than water. The cost of repairing the damage has been estimated at any sura between LlO and L4O, so that, allowing She larger amount to be the cost, the diversion of running into wharves is not- ruinously expensive to steamship owners if the freak ia not indulged in too often." Mr R. Richardson, whose proclivities for boating are so well known in Nelson, has performed a very daring feat. On Monday morning he left Nelson for Picton by way of the Pass, and arrived safely on the following morning, the weather not having been the most favorable for the attempt, as there was a south-west Rale blowing when he started, and the boat was far too small for such a trip. It- was plucky, but unwise. The Australian Steam Navigation Com- . pany announce in some of the New Zealaud papers that they purpose, in March, placing a tirst-claas steamer on the line between Sidney and the Southern Provinces of New Zealand, The large traffic on this line twelve years ago, when the trade of New Zealand was far below wh <t it now is, fully justifies the A.S N, Company resuming a service which they unwisely permitted to collapse when the New Zealaud and Panama Company broke up. An ingenious inventor has turned electricity to a new account, but not as yet with complete succets. His object is to use it as a motive power fnr the propulsion of vessels, in lieu of steam, and he tried the experiment the other day on a yacht named the Miranda, with the screw detached. The result was the driving of the shaft at such an immense velocity that before the machine could be stopped it had broken away all the fastenings, being too powerful by half for *,he work it had to do. The inventor of tne machine, which is called the " liJeotric-Magnetic Motor," estimated the number of its revolutions at full apeed at from 1400 to 1600 per minute.— Mancliester Examiner.