IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 55, 4 July 1887, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Suva: 45 sacks bones, 43 rails and Sundries. Per Manapouri, from Melbourne : 100 Backs onions, 10 cases sewing machines, 90 boxes and 63 half-chests tea. From Dunedin: 20 boxes soap, 52 packages tea, 5 hhds and 2 kildkns ale, 20 drums oil, 50 boxes candles. For Lyttelton': 1,608 slcs wheat, lOpkgs Irish moss, 20sks peas, 410sks flour, 9 crates biscuits, 20sks oatmeal. For Wellington :30 boxes soap, 20 boxes candles. Gisborne: 15 bags pelts, 56 bags horns, 165 sheep, 2 horses, and sundry cargo from all ports. The 3choonerWdiapu arrived at Gisborne, from Mercury Bay, on the 27th ult. The barque Rrotitenbeck, which left Dunedin for this port on Saturday last, has part cargo from Glasgow for this port. The s.s. Suva arrived from East Coast ports at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Passengers : Messrs H. Dio Plerny, Milner, Hutcheson, and Mis 3 Hartley. The R.M.S. Alameda left San Francisco at 4 p.m. on Friday, July Ist, and is therefore due to arrive here on Thursday, July 21st. The schooner Daisy (Watt), bound for Samoa, and the barque Rebecca (McArthur), bound for Lyttelton, sailed on Saturday evening. r The s. s. Clansman-arrived from Tauranga on Sunday at 4 a.m. Passengers : Mrs Jordan, Miss Jordan, Messrs Jordan, Neighbour, Vercoe, Rotheram, Capt. Ellis, and Rev. Father Mahoney. The s.s. Richmond will leave for South Sea Islands on Wednesday next. The brigantine Lookout was the only vessel loading at Mercury Bay on Saturday. The s.s lona arrived from Mercury Bay on Saturday night. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Gow and family, Mrs Steadaway and others. 1 The s.s. Chelmsford arrived from Opotiki, Whakatane, etc., yesterday, with 300 sacks maize, and 2 tons pumpkins. Passengers : Messrs Foss, Baker, Maun, Rev. Tunningell, Mrs Bouslock, and three natives. ■ The P. and O. steamer Carthage, which arrived at Melbourne from London on July 3rd, bringe the following passengers for New Zealand : —For Auckland : Mr Alfred Bayliss, Mr and Mrs Bruce, Messrs W. Bruce and R. Bruce. For Wellington: Miss Elder. ForDunedin: Mr H. J. Gallop. During the quarter ended June 30, deEartures from ICaipara included : —For New outh Wales—B vessels, with baulk timber, valued at £581; rough sawn timber, £5,053 ; dressed timber, £1,347. For Victoria—2 vessels, with rough timber, £486 ; dressed timber, £1,114. For Queensland —3 vessels, with rougla sawn timber, £885 ; dressed "timber-,.-,£1,884.

The exceptionally long passage of. 144 days made by the Elinor Vernon between New York and Dunedin is accounted for by her meeting strong gales shortly after leaving New York, getting very poor trades, both N.E. and S.E., and no passage across the Southern Ocean ; while although she made the coast of New Zealand on the 15th instant, she was driven off the land, and suffered a detention of another ten days in consequence.