IMPORTS.
Per Wallace, from Hokitika : 1 box, Hnngerford ; 42 sheets iron, 1 package, Lockington Bros ; 1 case coffee, Glenn Bros ; 3 packages, Rudd ; 36 packages, Forsyth and Masters.
The name of Dr Carr was, by mistake, inserted in the passenger list of the Murray, published yesterday. The p.s. Wallace returned yesterday from Hokitika, and on the same tide that port was entered by the Kennedy, from Westport and Nelson. The mails brought by the latter were forwarded to Greymouth by coach. Captain John Orkney has been appointed Deputy-Harbor-master at Dunedin. Of the issue of 15,000 of the New Zealand Shipping Company's shares, over 13,300 have been applied for, exclusive of the Auckland applications, which, it is expected, will reach at least 2500 shares. ,
The three-masted schooner Melaine has been purchased by Mr Copeland of Dunedin, and is under the command of Captain Walsh, late of the barques Union and Duke of Edinburgh. In a paper on the river Clyde, by Mr James Deas, C.E., it was remarked that for no river in the kingdom had so much been done by art and man s device as for the Clyde above Port Glasgow. The river from Glasgow, for twelve miles seawardj is nearly as much an artificial navigation* as the Suez canal, and requires constant dredging to maintain it ; while the ever-increasing size of the vessels of the mercantile navy renders necessary the constant deepening of the river to enable the navigation to keep pace with the demands of the shipping trade. One hundred years ago the river was fordable even on foot twelve miles below Glasgow. The engineering works carried out on the Clyde, combined with the mineral resources of the district, have raised Glasgow from an insignificant provincial town, with a populalation in 1771 of only 35,000, to be the second city in the empire, with a population (including suburbs) of 566,850, according to the census of 1871. The banks of the Clyde are now the seat of the largest ship-building trade in the world.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1575, 22 August 1873, Page 2
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336IMPORTS. Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1575, 22 August 1873, Page 2
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