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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 147, 24 June 1887, Page 4

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Per Zealandia: 1,500 fire bricks, 162 packages machinery, 50 cases dried fruit, 100 cases canned goods, 10 flasks quicksilver, 4 bales broom corn, 44 packages merchandise. Wellington : 50 kegs casings, 217 cases canned goods. Lyttelton: 20 cases cod.fish, 15 cases dried fruit, 7 packages merchandise. Port Chalmers : 74 cases canned salmon, 10 bales hops, S kegs merchandise. Apia : 11 packages merchandise. V ;

The schooner Mariner had not arrived at Roratonga up to the 3rd instant. : The, ship Trttmgitikei left Giravesend for Auckland on May 3rd. The barque Erie Reed, 682 tons register, Tras to have left New York for Lyttelton on June 15th. The barque,Medura and ketch Recamia are loading afr'Mercury Bay. The barque Sentinel and schooner Queen ■were windboundUafc...Mp,ngonui when the Clansman called.., ...-• „ . The S.S.* lona returned from Great Bamer this iiiorning! -Passengers : Messrs Higgins, Fleming, P. Jenkins, Harrison, Mr and Mrs Cronen and boy. The whaler Milton and barque Rud Josephy were to have left Russell to-day,the former for a cruise and the latter for New Bedford. The schooners Waiapu and Gisborne left • Mercury Bay for Gisborne, via intermediate ports, on Thursday last. The barque Phoenix arrived at Whangaroa from Sydney on Saturday last. She : experienced very heavy weather during the passage and sustained some damage. The s.s. Mararoa arrived from Russell early to-day, with the following passengers :—Messrs Oldham, Ford, son and daughter,-and Miss Goultoh. ■■"■> The following booked at London for Auckland per p. and 0. and Orient steamers : — ■ Per Carthage, from London, May 20 : Mr A. Bay less, Mr and Mrs Bruce,, Messrs W, and ,R...Bruce. Per Massila, to leave London June 3rd: Mr Morris, Mr Lawrence. The s.s. .Clansman arrived from Russell and Northern ports at 4 a.m. to-day. Passengers : — Messrs 'Norton, Steinhouce, Puller, Ufcting, Grey,; Jones, Vowels, Minchin, Rhodes, i Rev. Father Mahoney, Mesdames..French,"'Misses Starrat, Burleigh, and Meld, c .\.--v*, ,, ;' ■'■■'• Messrs ■ Staley, Radford and Co. (May 13th) quote sailing-vessel rates from London to Auckland: Rough measurement, 27s 6d to 30s ; -fine, 40s'; weight, 25s t<> 30s ; cement, 5s per cask.' Steamer: Rough measurement, 50s to 55s J ; fine, 70s to 75s ; medium fine, 60s to 655. The competition at New York in rates .to the colonies continues, and up to May 27th goods were' beingcamed to all ports at considerably under actual charter rates. Avkell and Co. quote nominally as follows : —Sydney, 10c. per foot; Melbourne, 12c. ; tol3£c. ; Adelaide, 2Qc; Brisbane (through bills lading,;'via Sydney),, 16c. ' to ;18c. ; direct 18c. \to "20c. ;\ New. Zealand, Dunedin, llyttelton "and Auckland, 15c ; Wellington, 21c. The s.s. Wellington arrived from Whangarei last evening with the following passengers : —Messrs Clendon (senr.), Clendon (junr.) McNaughton, Warsby, Whitelaw, Rust, Reid,King, Rice, Dould,McKay, Vance, Dixon, Howard, Bull, Master Jessop, Mesdames Jessop, Clarke, Millington, Misses Davis, Mclnnes, McQuarry, Robertson, Millington, Sutherland, Dunn, and 8 in the steerage. / ..' .