EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5368, 29 April 1879, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wanaka, s.s., from Southern ports Kiwi, 8.5., from Wellington Lady Bird, s.s., from Northern ports Hawea, s.s., from Southern ports Southern Cross, s.s., from Wellington Mohaka, s.s., from Mohaka Fairy, s.s., from Blackhead Tarania, s.s, from Sydney via Northern ports Maw Wadley,- schooner^ from Newcastle Sifver Cloud, from Newcastle, N.S.W. Celeeno, ship, from London , Electra, ship, from London via Bluff G/len Calaclh, barque, from London, via Auckland .. • The s.s. Fairy, Captain Campbell, sailed for Blackhead on Sunday night. The s.s. Mohaka is ashore at Mohaka, and Trill probably be aflqafc again to-day. The Union s.s. Wanaka, Captain M'Gil- ■ limy, left Wellington yesterday at 2.15 p.m.. bound for Napier. She has about 30 tons of cargo to land, and sails for the North this evening at 5 o'clock. . The Maid of the Mill took off a load of I .. wool and tallow to the Mendoza yesterday. The Union s.s. Lady Bird, Captain Malcolm, is due here to-morrow from Northern ports, and leaves same day for the South at 11 a.m., The s.s. Sir Donald, Captain Watson, discharged yesterday ex Tararua from Melbourne. •The s.s. Clyde, Captain Petersen, is loaded • up for' the Wairda, and will leave for that port immediately the bar there improves to enable her to geb inside the river. Lieutenant Palmer, R.N., lecturing Feb. l^fh at the London Institution on " li'onclafls," gave a sketch of the history of ironclads, big guns, and armor plating. He confidently" believed that, though guns would still play an important part; in future warfare, the ram was the instrument that would decide •naval actions. Rams should be made detaching and containing a torpedo, so that when driven into an enemy's ship they could be left there and afterwards exploded by a wire and an electric connection. Lieutenant Palmer also spoke of the value of a new gripping camel for raising sunken vessels. Sixty-five ships were in 1875-6 sunk around our coasts in less than 20 fathom water, and the new machine would be able to raise them. It consisted ,of padded grips, attached to an iron chamber to be sunk with the grips, and when .they had their hold tlus was to be filled by pumps with air instead of water, and a number of thcseVutod to the size and weight of "the ship would raise it. Numerous diagrams j and models wore shown.