EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1418, 15 February 1873, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Kennedy, for Westport— l case hardware, 4 kegs nails, 2 drums oil, 1 box spades, Forsyth and Masters; 1 package, Union Bank. For Nelson— l 2 packages empty bags, 79 bags coke, Nancarrow and Co ; 58 tons coal, N Edwards and Co.

Yesterday morning the s.s. St. Kilda sailed for Wanganui direct, and the s.s. Waipara for Hokitika. The s.s. Kennedy sailed about 10 o'clock last night for Westport and Nelson. The s.s. Alhambra is expected to arrive from Nelson on Sunday morning, when she will be despatched with passengers for Melbourne direct. A case of some interest, and of a somewhat novel character, was heard lately at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Auckland. Mr G. M. Fletcher, a resident at the North Shore, brought an action against the Messrs Holmes, proprietors of steamboats running between Auckland and the North Shore, for & breach of contract in not adheriug to a (time-table published and distributed by them. The Messrs Holmes advertised up to the 3rd December that their boats would leave Auckland wharf at half-past 11 o'clock, which they did up to the night of the 4th ; and on the following night the plaintiff, who had gone over in the boats for two or three weeks previously at half-past 11 o'clock, went to the wharf at that hour, and found that the steamer had left at 11 o'clock, and in consequence he had to hire a boat. The defendants said that the steamers were only to leave at half -past 11 o'clock during the opera season, but his Worship though that the time-cable in the advertisement should have been altered, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of the boat hire anl costs. A contract has been made by Hooper's Telegraph Works (Limited) with Messrs C. Mitchell and Co, shipbuilders, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the construction of a steamer specially designed for the laying of submarine telegraph cables. This will be the first cable steamer specially built, and it is coutemplated that considerable saving will be effected in the cost of laying future submarine cables by its use. !fbe vessel will be capable of taking 3000 to 4000 miles of the Great Western Telegraph Company's cable, now in progress of manufacture by Hooper's Telegraph Works, and of which about 1000 miles have passed the tests of Sir William Thompson and Professor William Fleeming Jenkin, the engineers of the company.