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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1887, Page 2

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Per Celestla—l,393 bags bonedust, 211 casks cement. 60 cases stout. Per Lady Jocelyn— i casks shot, 2 oases Eley'B cartridges, cartridge cases, sa'oon caps, wads, &c—W. H. Hazard. Gunmaker, 166 a, Qnoen-Bt. The 8.8. GlonelK was docked this morning for oleanlug. Theharqne litlraia to recelvp 306 sacks tallov,from the New Zealand Frozen Meat Company's Waltara works, for cod veyence to London. The barque Celestia, which left Sydney on the 7th Inst., a rived here at noon to-day, and dropped anchar beyond the powder ground. A brigantine. evidently bound for Auckland, was gassed by the s.s Waihora, between Three Kings and Caps Maria, on Monday afternoon. -The schooner Olive has been chartered by Messrn Arundel and Co. to take up tbe island trade, hitherto carried on by the s.s Explorer, and she will leave this port about ten days hence in charge of Captain Ross. The f ollowine passengers booked for Auckland per P. and O. starmer Ballaarar, which left London on February ll:-Mrs Lindsay. Dr. A. P. Lindsay. Mr W. A. fctewart. From Venice: Mr T. Forbes. The s.s. Kahn arrived from Napier and intermediate ports at 1 a.m. to-day, and borthed at the Railway Wharf. She brings SO tone wheat from Napier, and 350 sheep from Tologa Bay. Fine weather prevailed during the passage. Passenger :—Mr Newton. The Shaw, Saviil, and Albion Company's ship Oamaru left London for Auckland on Feoruary i with the following passeogers: -Firßt-clasa— Mr C. H. Looke, Mr Cecil Brooks, Mr S. Shirley Blackburne. Mr R. Storr Wilton, Mr Henry Morgan, Mrs Williamson, Miss M. H. Swiaton, also lOuteerage paseengora. The Marias Board at Sydney held an inquiry - into the Syren—Coonanbara collision on March 14, and decided to suspend the certificate of Captain Anderson, master of the first-named vessel, for three months. Captain Anderson, in handing in his certificate, said tout he did so under protest. Ths B.s. Waihora lelt for Sydney, via Russell, at 6 o'olock last evening, with the following passengers:—Major anil Mra Gaorge, Messrs t'runior. Cooper, Shepherd, Stee!o, Fischer. Bare Shepphera. Mra Granville. ttdßß Davitt. Mr and Mrs Bart. Mr and Mrs Stitchbury, Messrs J: Kneou, McLaohlan, Campb ?.11, Dick, H. Bevon, J. D. Stevenson, through passengers for Sydney, and 36 in the steerage. The " Anglo-New Zealander " of February 11 contains a description of four splendid additions t i the P. and O. Company's fleet, from which we clipth9 fallowing:-"Tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, tbo oldest a) well as the largest of tho mail steamship companies ot the world, celebrates its jubilee this year by the construction ot four magnificent ships, named respectively the Victoria, Britannia. Oceana, and Arcadia, whioh, when completed, will ha tho largest, safest, and most comfortable veßsel-i engaged io the Australian mail passenger trade."