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May. 31, Jane Elkin, ketch, 25 Una, Leslie, from Kaiapoi 31, Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Prazer, from Kaik«ura. . 31, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, from Blenheim. • SAILED. 31, Nil. IMPOET9. In the Falcon, Turnbull and Co, agents— 65 bales tow, Johnston and Co ; 5 sacks peas, O'Shea j 100 Backs malt, 3 sacks chicken feed, Order ; 1 pel, Poulson ;• 1 pol, Kirckaldie and Stains. In the Jane Elkin, Master, Agent — 295 bags flo'ir, 84 sacks do, 12 do sharps, Turnbull and Co ;82 sacks oats, W. W. Taylor ; 43 sacks bran, 25 do sharps, Tonks. In the Ruby, Bethune & Hunter, agents— 170 bags oatß, 40 do bran, 6 tons potatoes, 43 sacks wheat, Turnbull and Co ; 33 bdli wire, 20 do arms, Telegraph Department ; 24 pkgs, printing press, Order. EXPOBTS. In the Ladybird, Hartmann. agent— l pkg saw*, Gibson ; 1 chaffcutter, 1 wheel, 5 pkgs, Mills ; 2 casks beer, 14 pkgs. 18 paddle arms, 2 bdls plates, 15 boiler tubes, Hartmann ; 1 ease, 1 truss, 30 kegs butter, Order ; 1 truss, Turnbull and Co ; 1 box, Telegraph Department ; 2 bales, 1 truss, Hirst ; 1 pel, Education Department ; 1 box, Coleridge ; 1 box, Maxwell ; 1 oase, Colonel Reader.

A curious maratime question was decided the other day by the Plymouth magistrates. Tho captain of a vessel was summoned by four of the crew for neglecting to serve out lime juice during the rojage. No ill-treatment •was alleged, and there had been no sickness on board. The captain pleaded that fresh Australian beef was served, and was considered sufficiently antiscorbutic. He was fined £5, the magistrate remarking that the Board of Trade had not yet sanctioned the disuse of lime juice, &c, when tinned beef was con■umed.—" Graphic." The famous Bessemer Bhip has just enoountered an unexpected rival in the floating cabin devised by M. Alexandroviski, the inventor of the " under water vessel." The construction is very much the same as that of the Bessemer, but the cabin, instead of being attached to a pivot, literally floats in a kind of tank placed amidships between the engines. The invention was tested a few days sinre by the Grand Duke Constantino, in his capacity as head of the department, with a perfectly satisfactory result, all efforts to shake the cabin proving utterly unsuccessful, and the pitching as well as the rolling motion of the veisel being completely counteracted. M. Alexandrovski leaves for England shortly in order to patent his invention, intending to Tisit Franoe a little later with the same object

Self- working work is looked on with favor by most people. Some of our readers will rember that Admiral Inglefield invented a plan by which the water wherein a ship floats does the work of steering ; and now another invention of great advantage fco ships has been tried ab Plymouth with results that look very much like success. Foul water and floul air in the lower part of a ship are offensive, and often prejudicial to health ; the invention here noticed pumps out; both by the mere rolling of the ship. Two iron cylinders connected below by a tube are placed on each side of the vessel. From each* cylinder a pipe descends into the air or water that is to be pumped out, and a similar pipe rises as an outlet above. The cylinders are filled with quicksilver, and being connected below, aa already stated, each roll of the ship produces aa alternative rise and fall in the quicksilver, creates thereby a vacuum, into which the bilge-water rushes, and is pumped out at the Tent in a continuous stream. The cylinders whioh expel air are filled with water, but their action is the same as here described, and in each case the action is so simple and effectual that we may believe that from this time forward the lower decks of ships will be kept free from foul smells and occasions of disease. The experiments abeve referred to were made on board vessele of the Royal Navy, and with entire satisfaction to all concerned. But it is in emigrant ships that ventilation is especially required, and in merchant ships a well venti lated hold will tend to the preservation of the cargo.