EXPORTS

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3554, 29 December 1881, Page 2

EXPORTS

JLjdi'" Perßotoruafor Wellington—l 6 cases sauce, "•fir 2 oases cucumbers, 211 mats sugar, 11 oaaks oil, 3 packages. ForLyttelton—3 bales. lßpaokagoe, 10 empty casks. For Dunedin—l2 empties, 1 casks olvll packages sundries. For Oamaru— 5 oases hematite. Fjor Bluff-1 ease. For Melbourno—2o sacks gum. lease. Toe s.b. Orstl was to leave for Southern ports about 1 p.m. to-day. Passengers for Well lug ton: Mr and Mrs Gardiner and Mr Homers. The barque Loch Urr, after discharging hero, . v, ill proceed to Wellington, to load for London, while the Coromandel will fill up at Napier, for the same port. This 8.8. Fingal will arrive from Meroury Bay during this evening. She will probably have Carter and Floyd, the Sydney scullers, as passengers to Aupkland. The barque Stracathro will sail for London about January 10. She has now in about 1,000 1 esses gum, 200 cases tallow, 1,600 bales wool, 139 a tons manganese, and will take another 2,000 caSBSKum and sundry othor packages during this next week. The Union Steamship Company's new steamer Manapourl, 1900 tons arose register, 2000 horse ' power effective, will leave the Clyde early in March next for Melbourne and all New Zealand ports, and is expected to reach Melbourne In li days, and New Zealand in 51 days. She is in charge of Captain Thomas Logan, well and favourably known here as late master of the 8.8. Hero. The s.s. Rotorua left for Southern ports at noon to-day. Passengers for Glsborne-Miss Lynch; Messrs Coombes, Allen, Hendry, R. A. Lusher, P. Russell, P. Fairburn.Donglas. Sorry, Mrs Vlnoent For Napier—Mr O, Farrell, Miss Lory. For Wellington-Mr Halh For Lyttoiton—Mr Colwell. Mr and Mrs Bates and 2 children, Mr and Mrs Thompson and boy, Mr i > Gregg. For Port Chalmers—Mr and Mrs J. Peacock. For Melbourne—Misses Cowan, Curat?; Messrs F. J. Smales. W. Sohwartze, W. Harris, Tho b.s. Glenelg left Tauranga at 1.15 p.m. yesterday, and arrived at Auckland at 6,30 a.m. Mad a thick fog all night and engines going easy. Passengers: Mrs Norris, Shaughnessy, Hoben, Misses Edgar, Knox. Dawßon, Stevens, ■, ' Conway, Messrs Stevens, Knox, Shaughnessy, Capt, Norris,- Litchfield, "Wamaley, Morrison, Hampton, Conway, H. Moody, 8, P. Moody, J, P. Moody, Elliott, Gordon. Wells, Sefton. J. Jenklnson, W., Jonkinson, Gordon, and 6 steerin age; cargo,2oosheep. Tho trip of tho steamer Orient by way of the Suez Canal has demonstrated the fact that a man can travel from London to Sydney in 31 days. Tho fact needs no comment: it speaks wonders. The Orient left Plymouth on the 29th - Ootober, and, including all detentions, made the voyage to Adelaide in 36 days. Her actual steaming time,howevor, was only 311 days. By waiting a day at Suez she picked up the Brindisi mail, and thus was enabled to deliver letters in AdelaidesomLondon, In 291 days, in Melbourne in 32 days, and in Sydney in 31 days, allowing for dlffsronco of time. The Orient has been in • * splendid steaming form throughout the voyage, and the cverago speed maintained all the way was ft fraction over 14 knots.— Melbourne, Am.