IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 988, 19 March 1873, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per.s.s. Wellington, from Southern ports : 6 boiler tubes, Frazer and Tinne ; 50 case 3 geneva, Lewis Bros. ; 2 cases, 2 bales, order ; 2 portmanteaus, Barnes ; 1 parcel, Bell; 1 do, Nathan and Co. ; 25 sacks malt, Ehrenfield ; 3 do do, D. Stephenson & Co. ; 2 cases drugs, !1 drum naphtha, Kempthorne & Co. ; 1 parcel, H. Xohn ; 2 cases, M. J. Wilts ; 1 parcel. Lewisson ; 1 case, Keesing, Doitch and Keesing; 1 package, Mulholland ; 1 parcel, Simpson ; 69 sacks wheat, Bycroff and Co. ; 7 cases cheese, Coupland; 10 cases bacon, Morton ; 4 cases bacon, 3 do cheese, F. Hewin ; 1 parcel, Bank of New Zealand ; 1 parcel, 1 box, 2 cases, Collector of Customs ; 1 case, Levy; 1 parcel, District Engineers ; 3 package luggage, Flower ; 1 box, Hemies ; 1 parcel, Stewart; 2 boxes gold, 14G5 ounces 13 dwts, Bank of New Zealand ; 2 parcels, Bank of New Zealand; 19 cases fruit, J. Solomon ; 8 cases, Barnes ; 12 hides, Gittos ; 8 cases, Bennett; 12 cases, Hood ; 5 cases, Osborne Bros. ; 5 do, Veale. —Combes and Daldy, agents. Per Excelsior, schooner, from Dunedin : 7 barrels pork, 11 cases preserved meat, 48 bags grass seed, order ; 10 barrels pork, 6 hhds. ale, 1 case sundries, 10 barrels salt pork, J. Reid ; I case bolts, 9 kegs nails, T. and S. Morrin ; 2 cases shovels, 1 box scales, 1 keg hammers, J. Renshaw, 975 bags flour, 120 ditto pollard, 20 ditto pearl barley, 280 ditto bran, 40 ditto barley dust, G. W. Binney. Per Esther, schooner, from Napier: 17 bales wool, 130 do flax, J. Roberton and Co.

Per Dakato, p.s., from Southern ports : 30 hhds. ale, J. Reid; 50 sacks seed, W. Baird; 1 case glass, Fort; 2 qr.-casks whiskey, Henderson and Macfarlane ; 1 case preserved meats, J. Reid; 1 do, Wm, Montague ; and 258 packages wool, &c, for San Francisco.

The N.Z.S.S. Co.'s s.s. Wellington, M. Carey, commander, arrived at Onehunga at noon to-day. She left Port Chalmers on the 12th instant, at 7 p.m., and arrived at Lyttelton at 1 p.m. on the 13th ; left at 6.50 p.m., and arrived at Wellington at 10.50 a.m. on the 14th ; left at 1.15 p.m. on the 15th, and arrived at Picton at 6 p.m. ; left at midnight and arrived at Nelson at 10 a.m. on the 16th ; left at 9 p.m. on the 17th and arrived off Taranaki at noon on the 18th ; left again at 6 p.m. and arrived as above. Experienced light easterly •winds throughout the passage. We are indebted to Mr Willcocks, purser, for files and list of passengers — Saloon : Mr and Mrs'Forsyth and child, Mrs Robertson, Mrs Marshall) Mrs Symour, Major Gordon, Capt. Murray, Lieuts. Kitchen and Mellsopp, Messrs Hoskins, McLean, Mills, Battle, Hedge, Partington, Gordon, Crawford, Soall, Hay, Thompson, Haresnape, Boardman, Payne, Stone, Warren, Colman (2), Douglas, Leigh (2), Watson, Petchell, Drake, Cawkwell, and Grundy. Steerage : Messrs Anderson, Ebborn, Maberley, Wigley, and Schuter. The schooner Fortune brings 800 bushels wheat from Awanui, flThe schooner Opotiki from Poverty Bay brings 386 bags grass seed, G. E. Head; 4,000 do. Lewis Bros. ; 2,00 do. 2 boxes apples, order; 3 do do. Kissling. Per Lsetitia, schooner, from Lyttelton : 459 sacks oats, D. H. McKenzie ; 156 do wheat order. —D. H. M'Kenzie agents J y The cutter Dawn has cleared outwards for Kaipara with a large general cargo. The mail steamer Dakota, Capt. Ingersoll, arrived last evening from Southern ports with a large number of passengers. She will leave with the English and American mails to-morrow afternoon at two o'clock. The schooner Lsetitia arrived yesterday from Lyttelton with a cargo of grain. She left Lyttelton on the 11th instant. The missionary schooner Southern Cross will leave to-r\iorrow for Norfolk Island. The brigantine Esther arrived last evening from Napier, with a cargo of wool, consigned to Messrs J. Eoberton & Co. The cutter Flora McDonald arrived in the Manukau yesterday from Kaglan, with the the following cargo :—54 bales flax, A. Barnes; 18 bales tow, A. Buckland. Passengers :—Dr Harsant, MrHarsant, Mrs Mitchell, Mis Kescel, Messrs Kescel, Gage, and one native. The s.s. Go-Ahead will leave the Manukau for Taranaki and Wanganui at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Sending Sailors to Sea in Unseaworthy Ships.—The Graphic observes : —A number of seamen have just been committed to prison at Dorchester for various terms, with the addition of hard labour, their offence being a a refusal to go aboard their ships, as they had contracted to do. Seamen are, no doubt, occasionally difficult to deal with ; but it is impossible to read the reports of these cases without some painful doubts as to the justice of their sentences. To take an example, one of the ships is stated to have sailed from Cardiff for Rio de Janeiro, but to have found herself, after a week of bad weather, compelled to put into Weymouth for repairs. A vessel driven so far as this out of her course, must certainly have been but little under control; and it appears that five of her crew were disabled and others severely injured. It was under these circumstances that the remainder of the crew, having landed, refused to go aboard again, alleging that the vessel was not seaworthy. This plea, it appears, was not regarded as proved, but as the defaulting seamen preferred hard labourin a gaol to returning to their ship

there seems to be at least prima facie evidence of the sincerity of their excuse. Unhappily, the practice of sending vessels to sea undermanned and unseaworthy is known to be very common, and to be yearly increasing under the influence of the pre* sent system of insurance. "The Vessel may have been perfectly unobjectionable ; but as seamen are poor, and as a rule unable to obtain much professional assistance, it would be satisfactory to know whether any means I are taken \n such cases for inquiring into tke fcfuth of their complaint. ( The s.s. Star of the South arrived at the Spit at seven o'clock this morning from Auckland. The s.s. Albion arrived at an early hour this morning at the Bluff, with the Suez I mail.