IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1774, 13 April 1874, Page 2

IMPORTS.

(A special charge is made on consignees' announcements inserted in this column.) Per 'Wallace : From Nelson, free and duty paid 1 cask eggs, 4 cases, 1 truss, 2 cases fruit, 1 keg butter, 3 parcels, 1 sack herbs, 1 bale, 1 package, 1 case apples, 18 cases fruit. 1 package, 1 case boots. From Hokitika -2 boxes, 1 bale, 1 jar, 1 parcel, 10 sacks malt, 1 parcel, 1 case coffee, 1 bag do, 1 case pepper, 1 parcel, 1 bundle iron, 1 roll zinc, 1 ingot tin.

The p.s. Wallace, which passed the port last Friday, arrived off the bar yesterday forenoon too late for the tide. She left Hokitika at 6. 20 a m., about an hour after high water, the state of the bar there compelling her to wait before she had a chance of coming out, and arrived as above. She came to the wharf at 5.10 p.m. The p.s. Charles Edward left yesterday afternoon at six o'clock, having been detained since Friday waiting for coal. The Claud Hamilton put in an appearance last evening, and was tendered by the p.s. Dispatch, which took on hoard a large number of passengers bound for the Pahner. She arrived too late to allow the tender to return on the same tide. Mr Zealand, late chief officer of the Star of the South, has received an appointment to the same position on board the Mongol ; and Mr Ellis, the shipping reporter of the Soutliern Cross has been appointed purser. The Taranaki Provincial Council has had under discussion the propriety of accepting an offer made of supplying a tug to work over the bar of the river Waitara. The Messrs Webster, "who would seem to have faith in the enterprise, had offered to place one at the dispos tl of the Government for L3OO the first year. L2OO the second, and Ll5O the third. The offer, it is thought probable, may be accepted By telegraph :— New York, February 14 Shipping — bailed: The barque William Gifford, for Dunedin. The barque Splendid, for Port Chalmers, put into St. Thomas's leaking, and discharged her cargo. The barque Eureka left for New Zealand. The American journals suggest that the time occupied in the journey between New York and Liverpool might be considerably reduced, though at the inconvenience of numerous changes. This proposed route is from New York by rail to Shippegan, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, thence across the Gulf by steamer to St. George's Harbor, Newfoundland, thence by rail to St. John's, thence by steamer to Valencia, Ireland, thence by rail to St. George's Channel and by steamer to England. The time of this route can be reduced to seven days three hours, the longest water steaming being four days, to wit, St. John's to Valencia, 1600 miles. At the present time, from ten to j twelve days is usually occupied by the fastest steamer in sailing from New York to Liverpool. There is, we believe, a probability that Auckland may be made a station for British men-of-war cruising in the Southern Ocean ; and another project has been revived at home that, if carried out, will prove of advantage to the Colony. A sanatorium is wanted for troops that have seen service on the West Coast of Africa, in India, and in other countries where fever is only too prevalent. This is, as Dickens says in his description of Eden City, prevalent in the flatter parts of. the County of Essex, along the mouth of the Scheldt, and in many parts of Italy, while in Guiana and other lowlying districts of the South American coasts, it is nearly as much dreaded as in Western Africa. The idea is not a new one of forming a sanatorium in New Zealand, where the coast fever is unknown, -and where there is a singular immunity from epidemic disease when ordinary precautions are observed.