EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 215, 12 September 1888, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per brigaritine Ada C. Owen, for Rarofconga:—3o cases kerosene, 17 cases geneva, , 1 box tobacco, 2 cases milk, 3 cases beer, 7 bales paper, 1 J-cask rum, 1 box tea, 8 kegs nails, 1 case wooden ware, and sundries.

•■* Inwabds Coastwise.—Mariner, schooner, iroiriilussbll, with 100 tons c0a1.., : : Outwards Coastwise'—Mariner, sch.y for liussell, iii ballast. • ,

The schooner G taborne sails to-morrow for East Goasti ports; ■• v -.;.''■■;-- >' "• ;;•;■■■ ■•■■■' On%Monday,thOigchooner Glencairn sailed fepml/yttelton for this port grain-laden. The brigantine Silver: Cloud Jeiives Newcastle shortly for this port with coal. The ; brigantineoAda C. Owen has,been entered outwards at the Customs for Raro-

, tonga. This afternoon tho brigantine Ada 0. Owen left for Raratoriga with a.''•small gen-eral-cargo.-, . ' ■:."•" ■..■,.'■• _ .Laafcevening atSJo'clbck the s.s. Waira" rapa discharged the balance of her cargo and sailed for Russell to coal. About 6 p. m. yesterday the s.s. An3 * tralia sailed for East Coast portiand:Wellirigtori, with large general cargo. The schooner Mariner, lately engaged by the Auckland/Timber Company, has been chartered by Mr Lewi3 for the coal trade. The ship Piako will in all likelihood re r !i mam in port until the end of the present ; "month, when she will, leave for Napier or Gisborne to load wool for Home. " The barque Albert Russell has now completed her discharge, and is expected to sail for New York on Wednesday next. She-will take a-cargo : of about 700 tons kauri gum.- v/ .-,-, .;■ •.--.,■ .<.. ,- >■■,■■■.. The barque Coul-na-Kyle is to sail this afternoon for Marseilles. She goes under command of Captain Carmichael,;and takea a large quantity ■•'of- copra and, tallow as cargo.'' ;■:' ' v *' •. ~ _ v The ships Crusader and Killochan and the barque Kentish Lass, are getting their . cargo, out with despatch and iu,excellent condition. The discharging of the Crusader is expected to be finished by Saturday,' ■ when she will load for London with kauri gum, cotton, copra, &c. The two-masted, schooner fiignalled, yesterday proved to be the Mariner. She brings 100 tons,coat from Russel, and is today, engaged in discharging it into H.M.S. Diamond; The Diamond to-day was also taking in 120 tons Kamo coal from one of the Union, Company's hulks. (Japtain Ilillner, of tho barqucntine Je3tie, reports that whilo off Whangaroa oh the B,th ; insfc. he sighted a barque to the ■eastward,."apparently bound south/ She was, however, too :far-off to be made out;; On thei 10th; a, three-masted.timber-laden schooner was discerned steering north when off Mpkohinau. Yesterday a diver went down to examine the i sides and bottom of ...the , barque Stavanger to ascertain; the locality and extent of the leak, bub owing to his dress filling with water he had to come up with t out doing anything. The agents for the ! vessel have,called for tenders for the removal and storing of ;the StaVanger's cargo, while the vessel is being docked and repaired. ■ . The barge fktta, which was dismantled some time ago, has been overhauled arid < fitted with new spats,- etc.,,: by /Messrs Henderson and Spraggon during the 'past week.« The,same firm. are> now busy refitr ting the ketch Roso, and hope to have her ready this week. She is now the property of Mr M. Soares,- late captain and pw'ner of, tne cutter South Carolina, which was lost) at the Barrier. - .■* , v / . About 4.30 p.m. yesterday .tho:,)barqueh»] tine Jeaaie from Newcastle, which hadTjeen■'? picked up,by the tug Awhina between Tiri and the Rangitoto Reef, canie inttt harbour; and anchored<6ff >the Queen-street Whar£ She brings a cargo ;-of ;• 406 tons Newcastle j coal conaigned to Messrs Stone Bros, i Captain Dillner reports that ".he left) Now-. castle on August 30, with very light E.S.E. ■ winds. The next day, however, a fresh '• __ breeze sprang up from the north,' which! ''"""-^tseda heavy sea, lasting two days;' Until i waking the North Gape, on the 7thviostant, I stfpng winds prevailed, varyingl from S.S.W- to S.S.E., which wero acconjpanied by high head seas. Down tho coast un- . »ettledand ryaxxkble winds yr&ve enposntsere^ with frequent calms/ MokoWnaxi light! wcis passed on the 10th irißtanb; and Tirittri \v^a§ abeam .at 8 a. m, yesterday, the vessel, a^ living aaabove.

The area of Lake illlawarra (saya the; Hobarfc " Mercury/) is about ,9,000 acres.. Windanp-Island, afc the mouth of the lake, which-is'intended to bo ufcilised for. breakwater purposes, is about I.OOOtb long by aboub 250i'twide. In addition to_ blocking up'.between'the island and bhe.mainland on the Shelharbor side, a wall is to be vun out ,300 ft seaward from the island in a north-easterly direction, this -work to .consist of concrete blocks"of 30 tons each. .The whole of the> southern breakwater so formed will •• be fully 2,000 ft in: Length-, ■ arid so situated that it will repel all the'heavy seas that usually beat on this coast. The total length of the proposed channel including, thoentrance. will be about four miles. The mouth entrance will require a good deal of dredging or scooping up of the saudi bub the channel through the lake will require only an average deepening of 12ft to give a depth of 23fb at low water. This part of the channel will be about three arida.quarter miles long. The Dapfco syndicate will proceed with all these works after having a Bill passed by Parliament for the purpose. . The breaking down of steering gear .is a fruitful cause of disaster with ships of all classes, and to prevent catastrophes from these causes an ingenious rudder controller fia's been devised by Mr Thomas G. Stevens, of London, and was lately.inspected at 37,' Walbrpok, London.' By means of this cbnMvance, which is of a very simple character, the control of the rudder can be immediately regained in the evenbof a breakage of the chains or rods or any part of the apparatus now in use for steering either by hand or by steam. It is what is known: as, as a' strapbrake, and consists of a friction-band ntte,d around a disc which is.fixed on :thol wheelshaft of small vessels, and on th.r rudder head of those of larger tonnage. , In either case the strap-brake is put on and taken by means of. a email hand-wheel actuating a right; and left-handed screw, the whefel being placed within ,!easy reach of the steersman. On the turning: of the handwheel in one direff-ion • the strap is caused to grip the periphery of the disc, and thus to put the break on, holding the rudder in a fixed position. This apparatus is algb intended to tal£6 th 6' place of relieving tackle, and toeiiable the helmsman to hoid the rudder at any required point in heavy weather, and to release it instantly, by reversing the hand wheel. . To avoid the danger of the rudder being carried away by reason of too great rigidity,' resulting from the application of the brake, ;\vhich is a very powerful'one, small indiarubber buffers are introduced in the mechanism so as to allmv a' certain amount of play Jjo the rudder. Sbevens's controller has been fitted to tne steam yacht Malikah, of 350 tons measuren)ent, which has justi"returned to London from Gibraltar after a successful run. The controller is stated to have given '-every satisfaction, and to have acted perfectly whenever put in use, pvoviiig a great help to the helmsman. ■ . ' v ; ' '.