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The Pukaki left Timaiu at 10 o'clock this morning for Oamaru with a cargo of -coal to discharge. She should be here late this afternoon. The Te Anau, from Dunedin, was berthed at 10 o'clock this morning, having been kept outside all night owing to the heavy sea. She brought to land 40 tons of merchandise, including transhipments ex Pakeba, "Wimmera, Ulimaroa, and Surrey, and will load ahout' 400 tons of produce for Wellington, New Plymouth, and the Const. The Te Anau is announced to sail about 8 o'clock this evening. On account of the heavy sea which came up yesterday evening, the "Waiiakn did not get away as was originally announced, and her departure was postponed until 10 o'clock this morning, at which hour she sailed for Napier, Gisborne. and Auckland, via Bluff, taking with her from the local port 1400 tons of produce. The Petone, from the Bluff, arrived at Oamaru at about 10 o'clock this morning to lift cargo for "Wellington and AVanganui. She was expected to sail late this afternoon, via Timarn. Mr R. L. Earle, late second officer of the Pukaki, joins the Te Anau as second officer to-day ait. Oamaru. During the past three or four weeks the outward tonnage of steamers leaving Wellington for London has been particularly heavy. In all, 10 large, fullyladen steamers have left Wellington direct for London. The vessels were the Athenie, Turakina, Waimana, Rangitira, Indrapura, Waiwera, Indrabarah, Hurunui. Remuera, and £ia Ora, their combined registered tonnage being about 87,000 tons.

Acording to a cablegram received by the Auckland office of the Vacuum Oil Company, the steamer Anglo-Saxon, 4253 tons, sailed from New Yerk on April 23: h for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She lias a full cargo of case oil. The Auckland portion of her cargo amounts to 45,000 cases, which includes 18,000 cases of benzine. The Anglo-Saxon is due in Wellington about July 18th. Another well-known sailer has been lost to the New Zealand coastal schooner fleet by the sale of the Joseph Sims. The schooner was built twelve years ago of Australian hardwood for Mr J. Sims, of Kaiapoi, and for several years was one of the best known traders in.and out of Lyttelton. She was purchased three or four years ago by the Mitchelson Timber Company, who have employed her in the timber trade from Kaip'ara and Hokianga to Dunedin. Her new owner is Mr J. H. Edwards, of Tasmania, who also owns the barquentine lima. The Joseph Sims will load timber at Hokianga for Melbourne, and will proceed thence to Launceston, where she will be fitted with an auxiliarv 45 horsepower oil engine. Captain W. H. T. Brown, of Hobart, is to take the vessel to Tasmania. A trial was made at Port Chalmers yesterday of Mr John Tait's boiler circulator. The appliance was tested on the dredge Progress, and was favorablv commented upon by those present. Getting up steam on a big boiler usually results in unequal expansion of the boiler plates, owing to the heated water rising upwards, leaving the water in the bottom of the boiler much cooler than the water above. This problem has up to the present never been solved satisfactorily, and if Mr Tait's inverftion fulfils requirements, a highly successful future is assured for it. The contrivance consists of a small saddle, which surrounds the combustion chamber, and as the water heats up in the saddle first, ' the heated water passes out beneath the mam boiler tubes and circulates amongst' the coolest portion of the water in the boiler first, and successive tests have proved conclusively that a more even temperature is maintained by its use than by any existing method." Hitherto the difficulty has been to get a trial on a large boiler, but that difficulty was overcome yesterday.