EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1412, 8 February 1873, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Mary Van Every, for Invercargill: 60 tons coal, Nancarrow and Co.

There were no arrivals at this port yesterday. The first expected arrival is the steamer Charles Edward, now due from Nelson. The only departure yesterday was that of the only vessel in port—the Mary Van Every. A successful experiment was made on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the other day, in driving a canal boat by current water taken into a steam automatic pump at the bow, and driven out through a pipe with great velocity in the direction of the keel. All the machinery is of a very simple character, and the speed attained was about the usual rate for freight boats. Captain Jenkins, oi the John Knox. informs the Lyttelton Times that Messrs Brogden's steamer for New Zealand, the Patterson, was rapidly being completed, and was to sail on the 20th inst. Captain Kennedy is to have command of the vessel. The Port Chalmers Eailway Pier is now 800 ft long, which is the extent of the present contract, and will be finished in about a fortnight. At its present length it is fully capable of berthing three large ships on each side. /ll hope of the ship Glenmark has been given up by the friends and relatives of the crew and passengers, as, in the columns of a recent Lyttelton Times, appear obituary notices of Captain Wrankmore, Messrs Saunders, Gordon, and Dr Dry, "lost at sea in the ship Glenmark, which is supposed to have foundered with all on board, in a hurricane, about the 6th of February last, within a week after leaving Lyttelton." An ingenious method of stopping leaks in iron ships, when at - sea, has just been patented by Mr M'Coll, who effects his object by means of what he calls "safety plates." These plates are, as artisans say, "dished"— tha*. is, they resemble a dish in shape; consequently when the hollow side is pressed against the sides of the ship the safety plates fit close, and will keep water j' ii 6iuij t aouflnUuuE, nhcu vuc&-ime ieaK is discovered means can at once be taken for fitting on the new plate.