IMPORTS.
Per Norval from rouga:—aO tons copra.— Cruickshank and Co.. agent-:.
We learn that a firm in Lyttelton has been in negotiation with Messrs Holmes Bros for the purchase or the s.s. Durham, and that arrangements for the sale ara expected ro bo completed in a i'--*>v days. . ~ The ps. Te Aroha, belonging to -Messrs Holmes Bros., is likely to leave for Napier at-an early date. She v.-ill be employed in the ferry service at. that port. _ r , The schooner Mutant-:, la.c -.i.atc:ilcss, is "■nrtergomg: some repairs prior to sailing i-si Tonga and Samoa. , ■rife tallowing is the list of passnngers who l*>ft last evening by the s.s. \\anaka for Taurangaand other ports, including Wellrngton • Mr and Mrs Naylor, Mr and Mrs Cook. Mrs Noble, Mrs Sterndale, Mrs Best, Mrs Lee, Miss Brnford. Miss Uawson. Miss Dudon. Miss Sheehan Archdeacon Williams, Key JL. C. Kcclcs?Sir G. Grey. M.H.R.. l)r Wallis. M.H.R., W -V." Murray. M.H.R.. Messrs Eyre, William. Mclniies, Burns. Stait. Malone. Oxlev, Egan c si Stewart, Battler, Naylor. Buckrldgeand son Glendinniiiff. Wilson. Monfroso. Heron. Hedley. Mitchell Graham, Lundon, Home, and nve natives.—Henderson and Macfariane. agente. The New Zealand Shipping Company s fine new iron clipper Ws.nsanni. 1.000 tons register, is advertised to sail from 1.-yttclioa on tne 22nd tn^t. ror London direct, She is specially limit for carrying passenger?, and her accommodation is unrivalled. Captain Watt, late of the Celestial Oueen and well-known in this port, is in command. Application for passages should be made at once to Mr Batger, the agent of the Company. Tli" J.=. Jane Douglas arriveci in the Tamalci from Gisborne yesterday morning, and after discharging her sheep and cattle came up to the wharf between five and six o'clock in the evening-. She is to sail again tomorrow, fcr Gisborne. „.«■•.. j c The schooner Aeadia left Napier yesterday for Lyttelton with a cargo of wool a^d tallow for transhipment to England. The s.s. Southern Cross left last evening ior Napier direct with a full cargo and a few pasS'*n r*ers. ' "The new schooner Xorval, Captain Murdoek McKenzie. arrived yesterday evening from Tonr'a She left there on the 10th mst., and haw had a similar passage to that reported by the Thistle, that is. strong southerly and S.V. . gales throughout. She brings a car^o of copra and the foHo\vingpaK?enfc-ers :—MrsMenzics, Mr and Mrs Parker and child, Mr Moore, and 2 children, Mr Ogilvie. . The schooner Albatross arrived last night with a cargo of timber from W>-ngapoua. The three-masted schooner Garron, Captain Thompson, 'eft the Mannkau yesterday for Kainara, v,-hero she is to load for I)unedm._ _ The new steamer City of Cork, alter receiving her boiler" at Messra Fraser and Tinnes yard, in Mechanic's Bay. was brought round to the Queen-street wharf for the purpose of taking in her machinery under the big crane. The schooner Christina arrived from Russell this morning with coal. . The schooner Samoa left this morning for Tonga and Samoa with a fresh southerly breeze. ~ , , The schooner Lochipl and the barque Kebrcyri. both bound for Newcastle in ballast, both moved oft from the Wharf to-day. Mr J. M. Dargaville aod Captain Colbeck were among the passengers from Kaipara by the Riverhead boat this morning.
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Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2294, 12 July 1877, Page 2
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