EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 151, 27 June 1888, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per schooner Daisy : 29 cases drapery, cases lamps, 9 kegs nails, 2 drums oil, 7 bags sugar, 7 cases tobacco, 2 cases jam, a cases kerosene, 2 boxes tea, 5 cases preserved fish, 7 cases preserved fruits, 2 cases pickles, 2 packages woolpacks, 1 case vinegar, 1 case cocoa, 8 cases milk, 3 cases pipes, 3 cases oil, 3 cases lampglasses, 1 package buckets, 7 cases hardware, 4 cases drugs, 5 cases fancy goods, 1 case ink, 3 cases earthenware, 5 cases matches, 8 cases powder, 41 kegs beef, 57 cases meats, 2 cases shot, 2 bales sacks, 7 cases oilmen's stores, 3 cases salt, 2 cases butter, 2 cases cheese, 26 bags flour, 15 crate 3 biscuits, 2 packages furniture, 2 nests tanks, 2 horses, 1 case axes, 4 cases prints, 125 pieces timber, 15 cases soap, 15 bales hay, 6 sacks carrots, 1 drum tar, 7 cases mullet, 1 case perfumed spirits, 1 case apples, 3 bags rice, 1 bale cordage, 3 cases woodvvare, 1 case fepper, 1 case bitters, 3 sewing machines, packages sashes, 24 doors, 1 package caws, and sundries.

Per brigantine Anthons : 90,000 feefc titnIber (to be loaded ab the Thames), 10 tons potatoes, 50 sacks oats, 25 cases jams, 20 cases preserved meats.

Inwards Coastwise. — Spitfire, cutter, from Whangarei, with 35 tons coal; Lagoon, scow, from Opotiki, with machinery ; Czar, cutter, with 30 tons firewood, from Waiheke; Teviot, cutter, with 11,500 feet timber, from the Thames.

Odtwaeds Coastwise.—Eleanor Morton, cutter, with 1,000 bricks, for Opotiki.

H.M.s. Diamond is at the New Hebrides,

The s.s. Douglas sailed last evening for Opofciki and way ports. The s.s. Australia left for Wellington, via the East Coast ports, yesterday evening at 6 o'clock. The barque Cabarfeidh sailed this morn" ing for Mercury Bay, where she is to load timber for Sydney. The schooner Daisy sailed for the Island 3 last evening, as announced in our last issue. ■ The s.s. Argyle took up the running of the s.s. Wellington to Whangarei last evening, that steamer having to undergo her periodical inspection. The American whaling barque Alaska, Captain Fisher, is now bound for Sydney for repairs, &c. She has been out on a whaling cruise, and has had bad luck, having only taken 250 barrels of oil. The "Engineer and Iron Trades Ad vertiser" states that there was exhibited recently in the Royal Exchange, Glasgow, a model of a four-masted sailing ship, fitted with a patent feathering propeller suitable for sailing ships. It is a well-known 'fact amongst sailing ship owners that much valuable time is lost by sailing vessels getting becalmed when possibly a few miles' steaming would enable them to get clear of the " calm belts." Many attempts have l>oen made to overcome this difficulty, but so far without success. The arrangement of the prepeller put forward by Captain Macgowan is certainly a very ingenious one, and one which may deserve trial. The machinery for driving the propeller has hitherto been an obstacle, as the space taken up is so valuable in a sailing ship, but it is stated that this will be solved.

A lecbure was recently delivered in Sydney by a sanguine inventor, in which was described " The Steamer of the Future.' This wonder of the time to come is to rush along over the surface of the ocean at express,, speed—6o miles an hour—and, in order to do this, it is only necessarj, according to the lecturer, to construct her according to the following formula:—She must be 800 feet long, 55 feet wide, and 60 feet deep^; she must be flat-bottomed with a profile at the bow resembling a barge turned bottom up ; there must be six propellers of 10 to 12 feet in diameter—three on each side, and each driven by a separate engine, the actuating and motive power being oil. Should it be necessary to stop her suddenly in her headlong career, mechanical means would be devised for forcing up the stern, thus converting the whole vessel into a brake, bringing her to a dead stop in two minutes. The question irresistibly presents itself—where would she be when brought to a dead stop in so novel a fashion ? would she not have been forced by her momentum many fathoms below the surface of the sea.