EXPORTS.

West Coast Times, Issue 673, 20 November 1867, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Huon Belle, for Greymoutli — 10 hams 45 pieces bacon, 19 kegs butter, Royse, Mudie and Co. ; 1 engine, Davis ; 400 bags flour, 16 do sugar, 30 boxes candles, Ca33ius ; 5 bags maize, 2 boxes maizena, H>.U and Co. ; 190 bag 3 flour, 5 cases b icon, 2 do hams, Chesney and Co. ; 3 cases fancy goods, Susman and Co. ; 2 tons potatoes, A. Boyle. Per Northern Light, for Melbourne — 22 cases, 8 baskets ghi33, Mace and Dixon. Wo understand that the Bruce ran into the Grey Eivcr yesterday afternoon, which accounts for her non-appearance off the bar last night. She will doubtless arrive on this morning's tide, and, according to advertisement, is to leave for the Buller this evening. The p.s. Tasmanian Maid steamed up from the northward last evening, but being two lie urs after high water, the red flag was not given her, and pho accordingly came to an anchor for tha night. She will cross the bar on this morning's tide, and leave for the Buller and other ports in tho afternoon. The tide's work of yestei'day was confinc-1 to the departure of three vessels, which were towed out by the tug Challenge. Their names are — the Northern Light, bonnd to Melbourne, the ketch Huon Belle, to Graymouth, and the schooner Jessie, to Sydney. Tho wind having failed them, they were well in sight last night, the Northern Light and Huon Belle -with fair offings; bvit the Jessie had drifted dangerously close to the break, aud was at anchor — apparently holding her own — when we last sighted her. The Greymouth tug Dispatch steamed into the roadstead last evening with a schooner iv tow. Both vessels anchored, and will, wo suppose, enter the river this evening. The Galatea. — If the stranger is afc all of a nautical tendency, the number of her boats ■will be a noticeable featuro. There is a berth occupied by the Prometheus, a steamer tender, fitted with twiu-screws, for communicafciou -with the shore. Towing boats or carriage of guns or stores come alike to her, and in either case she does her work well. The best bower anchor, a delicate piece of Tubal Cain handiwork, weighing 7Scivt. 2qr. 13lbs. On the maindeck the armament is thirteen guvs on either side, or twenty-six in all. There are four 7iu. bore muzzle-loaders, -weighing six tons and a half each, beautiful pieces, with carriage gear, breeching and tackling in such order as would do credit to any factory. Then there aro four 64-pounders, ehunt muzzle-loaders, aud eighteen lOin. guns, each 87cwt., and two 12-pounder Armstrong breech-loaders for boating purposes, and one field-piece of similar chai-acter and calibre. In the arm-racks are 172 Enfield rifles, 52 Cult's revolvers, and 172 cutlasses ; so that His Royal Highness is not ill-prepared for war, although on a mission of peace. Abaft the after hotchway the state cabins are objects of special interest, wi h their wulnut Venetians, mahogany styles, gilt mouldings, and upholstery. Deeper still to the 'tween decks, where the tars find quarters before the officers' cabins, the latter occupy the greater portion of the space abaft tho engines, which is sunk right down in the vessel's skin. They are Penn'a trank engines, the cylinder of the lesser being 36in., and of the greater 89£ in. in diameter. Three feet eight inches is the stroke of the piston ; and while the engines nominally are 800-horse power, they can work yip to 3400 horses, consequently it is not astonishing that she speeds away at the rate of thirteen knots per hour in favorable weather. She is furnished with Griffilhs's patent feathering screw, which enables the pitch to he altered from twentyfive to twenty-nine, besides affording means of lifting it when under snil. The total weight of the machinery is 575 tons. There are 2756 tubes in the 9ix boilers, which are supplied with fuel from bankers capable of carrying 600 tons. The report of the voyage from the Cape contains no very interesting feature, beyond its accomplishment in twenty-three days. Tl c first part was inqrked by westerly weather until reaching a position off the Island of St. Paul's, where a cyclone was experienced. No inconvenience was felt from the storm, and the vessel careered on her way until within threo days' sail of our port, when the baffling winds induced the engines to be set at work, and the conclusion of tho passage was made under steam. It is pleasing to notice that, although more Hum 500 people are on board, only one case of serious disease occurred during the voyage from tho Cape— that of a j seaman who died from fever. — 'South Austra- j lian Advertiser," Oct. 31. j