IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3059, 5 June 1878, Page 2

IMPORTS.

(A made for consignees' ' announcements inserted in this column.) t fjFen faißeU* tAnrldrson^ from t Oamaru *- 100 bagsrtiatft]^ sftcks wheat, 680 bags flqut, 16 aaoi'meal. 35Q Bajkipo] tatb«s73dff ffo bran. Consignees ~p.M 'Lean, U»mpbe!J;Oit'dw«od, L%hmtthi^nd Go, Ken-nedyi-Br68 r , " Griffdbj ; BrtfWn ; T «(iid Holder, Per Isabella Anderson— 3oo' sacks,, prime oSma!rrf ll notatbJ9BV ; 500 saSlfiS'Wan', pollard, oatmeal, floor,'- add' wfleat;'DpoAN M'Lean. Per Luna, for Wellington— l6o tons coal, Rdocoke^ Bhiprjeri«—^Kennedy Brosl^ V'if-Y V'ff l "' ffv< .'ACrHt ' /A')*'.

The p.s. Luna Bailed yesterday forenoon llfcWwtp^rtal^Wolßhgtbii. ' ' • etiSEbt jschooner/Isabella^Anderson left ( 0»m»ril on' the 24th, ; with light southerly wind,{whiohfCOptinUßd'till she reached Cook NrW,Taid:~h«d; to" run to Queeq Chorlotte's Sound' fdr dtiffai'j'.lkliiiifcrt'dn Stiadk} last with strong S.E.. winds till Rock's Point j from .there Jight baffling, .w^nds until »rriv»l id the roadstead yesterday morning,' when she was brought in by the Dispatch. The vessel will load ,with ! the Grey mouth ComnuiY'sjCoaLJor Pun,ediu., -„-.-„ ,- -. ,• . ,-^ 'at Auckland from Greymouth yesteriiiy / ; ' ; A series of experiments , of great importance in connection' with iiaval warfare are ,ortiW*sttHw 9 airlrtedTmt at CKitDaffi TDßdkyard, when it is e*pepted? several members of _ the Board of. Admiralty will attend. In ah engagement between a large vessel and torpedo boats tbe greatest danger to the torpedo boats would be by the firing of Gatling guns, or of sharpshooters who may bo Bt«tionod ia the maintop. Ihe material of which the torpedo boat is constructed is of L.ne,ce«sijyjvery <l£in, and^ the; shots from the Gatling' gun or Martini- Henry rifleman penetrate it, which would be tha cause of the vessel wnkipgv^?iT^M in l v J en,tionv.whioh the Admiralty have now ordered to. be tested is by Lieut.-Colonel G. V. Fosbery, V.C, Bengal Staff Corps. He proposes to line the Boats with gutta-percha and india-rubber ; and from experiments which have already been made, it seems that, although a shot may n»ake a hole-two inohes-in diameter, the gnttA-perchft immediately/doses again to"it? original position, and so prevents the water runnioS-ini / The sceami laddcii No. 6 is now being fitted for the purposes of the experin^BntHiOY^T^/.i'T^A^M:-: /'^n'-^l ' '■/.■