EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1789, 30 April 1874, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Kennedy, for Wesfcport aud Nelson : 2 cases, 2 rolls, 60 tons coal.

The only arrival yesterday! was the s.s. . Kennedy, from Nelson, via Hokitika. She leaves again for the north about 10 a.m. to- ' day. . '.','■'•' The Zephyr and Cleopatra still remain at anchor in the roadstead, but will be brought in by the Dispatch whenever the channel improves. „ A . ' fine auxiliary - screw steamer was launched from the yards of Robert Stone, "Kauwaeranga, Thames, the other day, named , the Emu ; tonnage, 280 She is built to the Ropier,. of. Captain James Ston,e, of Auckland, .and is three-masted.' She proceeds to Auckland to have her engines fitted, and thence . to Lyttelton, for a cargo of breadstuffs. -We learn that Captain Annibal Marks, an , old and esteemed master mariner of this port, "has been appointed to the command of his , Excellency s yacht Blanche, vice Captain \ Warder, resigned. i The enormous iron pipes, a yard in 'diameter, which occupy .so large a apace in . the hold of the City of Glasgow, , are under'"stood to be part of the plant ordered from .Home for the Kanieri Lake, Water-race, . Hokitika. which was sanctioned by Parliament in its last session. There are 174 of them in all, and their enormous size would enable heads of water to be conducted large enough to supply a whole gold-field. The schooner Zior has been chartered to convey . them round the coast, and the. work of transhipping them was commenced yesterday. . They are stowed in both the holds, and were fixed in their places for the voyage by layers of the railway iron which also formed, part of the City's cargo. By means of a series of ropes arid pulleys, the final rope of which , passes round the capstan, and a hand-winch, the chain is drawn tight round the immense .' cylinder of iron, and it is gradually lifted over the side and lowered into the hold of . the Zior. The schooner will not be able to take all the pipes this trip, and other vessels 'will have to be chartered before the whole ,' y&\ be landed on tiie. West Coast The pipes are turning ont in first-rate order after ■- the long voyage. —lndependent.