IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 233, 4 October 1886, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per "Mir, from Java: UlO tt'ns ysm sugar and 3J tons kapok.

1-er Matid Graham : 710 sacks" /Coss. 150 sacks wheat, £o'tona railway iron.

P.r WuiraraDa: 155 packages tee, 100 saek-i wheat. 230 si-ts potatces. 276 3i\cxs oats, 43 b3gs cniona 100 bass rice. 15 cases acid. 100 sheep, and .35 packages sundries an.-l Jarcels.

INWARD', COASTWisi-. — Paku. fronr*- Talrno. with 27, ICO feet sawn timber and 22bat!Bgnm*. Sr.ucy Kate, from Monßonui. with 35..T00 feet tim-er ; Nellie, from Whangapoua, with* -O.stJO ifttt timber.

Outwards. Coastwise.—Paku. for Tafirna Ne He. for Whangapoua.

Tho brietvlina left Port Chalmorslor WHfir^Bßroa yo.t-. rd-»y.

The briratitice Nettle has been berthed at Ute Qii .on-str. et Whan.

The fcchooucts Annie Wilaon and Zlor arrived at L, ttelton from Kaipara on tho 30th ultimo. .The 3c.oo.ier Louie arrived at Lyttelton from 'rl.i'.iii.. on September 23.

Tli . anripons'- Ivenilrrorlh ia daily expected at Tairui. from' Napier, in ballast.

The bit que Aii eM FhTenaward was towed out of port 1-113 _I erUocin an .sailed for Samoa, where she ia to load .oprafor'a home port.

Tho three-masted s_ ..Orie'r Handa Isle was to have left Dunedin ab3-H the _.th Ultimo far this p-irt via Timaru.

Tbe s.«. Onelmsford left for. dfcj»_ki_at* PJ». to-day. P_3.*en_-0-a :Mr and iSt** DaTies.Mr H. Davice,

Tr,o b.rqu. Altxa left Mercury ?*____f or Sydney on Saturday Hat. The bi_*tanti?_e Oceoli is ixpected to follow to-morrow, A-eo bound for an Australian port.

- The only vessel at Tairua is the brigantlnrf (ik-ar.cr, v*hich la loading for Timaru nnd Oin_:u, sr,rt la expected to sail on Wednesday morning next.

The a s Arawata arrivod f om Wellington, Nij ier, i-isibirni! Waipiro, Awanui. and 1-npa-roa on Sunday evening, with _o*> sheep and 11 head cattle. Passengers: Messrs Kirkpatrick, K_-itriL3 (2), Cameron and 2 etaerage.

The schooner Energy and brigantme Hillan Donan L-aih timber laden, left for Briabanc direct on Saturday night, and the voyage across should idv-tlnm a«ood opportunity far a .sir trial oiapetd.

Tho as. lona arrived f-om Mercury Bay at 9 p.m. o:i Saturday Paesengere: Meters Langley Canna, Morßlington, Davey. and Hagarty r;) The lona 13 lo leave for Mercury B.y and Tairiii iigalu at 5 thia evening. TJu.--._2: tbe p__?aj-c of tho Himalaya from G'-f-ffOiV to Dunedin, llie con's ia the rr&tn bold rpjiicineous-ly ignited, and it was found necess"*t to j-tti»on some general cargo and 50 tonß o" i-00. 'Iho v.-.eel was at the time 500 miles lio-nl-nd. There was no confusion among the pa. ,e7,-_tl-s or crew.

'lh". 8.8. Clan-man arrived fre m Tauranga on Fund ly rnorniii?-. Pai-sengera: Mosdamen Filz-pi-raldarcl dvu-h'or. and Butt, Roy. L". Bruce, t;. A. IJoucla^, F\ Wrigley. Adam, Verco.*, Moody, V'ickers, Mulgan, Garrott

Things promise to bn brisk in the Auckland pilot te rvicc. Pilots Fa'nty and Ceoper, having liecn llnovß out of implojmer,t by the s.s A whina taking over the eervice, havechartered the cu'l'j* SeagtiH and etirted "opposition," comiTitncißg o*.crations from to-day. It remoin3 to be tuen whether there Is sufficient Inducement to keep both sides " going."

Tho fore nnd-aft schooner Maud Graham arrived from Lyttelton on Sundsy morning.and b^thi-d at Q_eo*--st. Wharf early to-day. She left Lyttelton ten dai a ago : had fresh eoutherly wind_ to Kast Cape, and fhenca till arrival f.-oh 3'.utherly winds and calms.

Th" s-h-o-or .Tulii Price is daily expecttd to arrive at Dyt'olton from the Islcnds wilh a oirgo ot fruit, tt-. On tho dischnr •■ of her inward cargo sho is to load gram, <■ c, tor /.i-rkl-nil 'fhp 'hreo maated schooner Rewari i.; ul-o t. loidTt Lyttelton for thia port.

Ship-ing at this and othercolonial pott ' '-owa nm-vk-tl imp'oveunoatoo vthat it was __ring th" li -hi six m.-nihs of tho year, and owners are now able to oUiin payable fr ighta for handy enltot sny rig. Tn-i timber trade, however, up'p.ar.tobn itill very dull, owing to the deir.a.so iv bnlldit-g cperatioiis—the local conuuinplioi being vory biuull iv comparison wilh 1 ist 5 civ's rt'iuircnienta.

""Tho Ufiniuo Minn, a wooden vessel of 622 iVir.BTre.islur, In command of Csp-ain Pledge, arrived from Java thle morning, and was toned t iim anchorage near the Hugar Company's Wliaif by Ihot'.s. Awhina. TheMinlett ourab.isa Java, on Augu-rt 3, nasaed through the .iraitH of Sunda, nr.d had a fine weatherpaasago thrcu.liout, yho briuKß 910 tonß raw sugar, and _t) tons Kapok.

From recent advices from Homo we learn that Captain Brolherton. lata of the s.s. Triumph has regain-dhi-i master's cartiflcate, and isnowia command <• f ihe 9.8. Wy vent, iv the Mexican tr'de The dispute between the owners of the Tiiu_iph aid tie underwriters had not been r a'i-factorily arranged np lo date of August 4, a-.d itapr""-" probab'e that the arbitration iv the c.se will hive to be gone over again, owing l. tt-*cea'h o* "_be lat-* arbitra'_3r previous to theawarl b*_nß *j'goed, and a question arUinz v-; :o v.-ttthur the award shou'd De an rpenrn , air .c-e i- i* *»c i,rs (liven to understand, tho ___• rwrittr. are oppo.cd to.