IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 179, 2 August 1887, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Omapere: 25S sacks wheat, 1,887 sacks potatoes, 250 sacks oats, 370 sacks flour, 180 sacks sharps, 70 sacks bran, 100 bags (1001b) flour, 320 bags (501b) flour, 10 sacks barley, 65 case 3 hop bitters, '25 bags lime, 50 cases jam, 84 hides, 53 packages sundries.

The schooner Glencairn arrived ab Wellington fiom Tairua yesterday. The brigantine Myrtle left Port Chalmers for this port yesterday.

The barque Rourenbeck will go from this port to Newcastle to load for Valparaiso. The bi-iganbine Clansman arrived from Rockhampton in ballast; tins morning, and anchored beyond -the Railway Wharf. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have arranged that the barque Helen Denny is to load at Picton this season, and probably another of their vessels will follow her.

Thes.s. Wellington arrived from Whangarei last evening with the following passengers : —Messrs Burder, Codber, Jackson, McKay, Aubrey, Masy, Mair, Clendon, Galbraith, Martin, Master Simon, Mrs Robinson, Miss Rook, and seventeen in the steerage.

The schooner Gisborne left Gisborne on July 16th, worked the usual East Coast ports, left Te Kaha on the 30th insfc. and arrived here at' 4- a.m. to-day. Passengers : Mr and Miss Swinton, Mr Jno. Wright and one native. Cargo : 337 sacks maize, 8 sacks wheat, 10 sacks grass seed, 6 hogsheads and 6 casks tallow, 40 hides, 7 cases bacon, 78 pigs, 5 bundles skins, 25 casks whale oil, and sundries.

The s.s.' Omapere,. Captain R. Smith, arrived from Southern ports at 7 o'clock this morning. Passengers :—Messrs Hill© and Jourdain, and two steerage. The Omapere left Dunedin at midnight on the 24th, calling at Oamaru (25th), Timaru (26th), Napier<2Bth), and Gisborne at 2 a.m. on the 31st. Left again at 7 a.m.,. and reached Tauranga at 7 a.m. on the Ist; left at 4 p.m., arriving as above: experienced fresh S.W. wind to Cape Palliser, and afterwards to arrival light variable winds

No news has yet been received of the wfety of the schooner Columbia, which left Mercury Bay for Gisborne on the Gth ultimo. The schooner Gisbornß, which arrived here this morning, called at almost .every port along the East Coast where the Columbia might have been expected td take shelter, and the only vessel resembling her seen was a schooner jjOing into Hick's Bay on Friday last. The schooner was a long distance off, and as Hicks Bay was passed in the dark, her identity was not ascertained.

The brig Rio Loge, which arrived at Lyttelton recently, experienced some very heayy weather shortly after leaving Mauritius. On June 19 the wind carno out from S. VV., increasing to a heavy gale, with frequent squalls and much hail. The vessel ran before it under reduced canvas, arid on the 25th in lat., 41 S., long. 90 E., the wind having veered to N.S. W., blowing a hard wale, a heavy mass of. water camo over the starboard side abreassbof the main rifgino- and burst upon the deck with irresistible force, completely carrying away the lifeboat, which was in the skids over the main hatch, smashed in and carried overboard the galley with all the cooking utensils, stove jn and gutted out the deckhouse in which the crew were quartered, started the after-house, carried away a ' quantity of the top-gallanb rail, closet, side lights, and started the ventilator combings, so that a quantity of water found its way below. Fortunately.no lives were'losi The cook, a Chinaman* Who was in the galley at the time, had his head forced through the deckhouse bulkhead but was not injured. The crew, haviiU their quarters carried away, bad to live'in the fore hold ' and *"*tll€> °ul >' cook' me utensils left were one pot and a part of a frvin«-pan, the resources 'of the cook were sorely tried.; However,a stove was. made out-of an oil drum, and, with a few pieces of sheet iron for a chimney, a decent bill of fare waspresented each day, the crew taking their meals in the after house. The weather still'continued very rugged and on the 29th a terrific cale from W.N.AV. set in, with a hi'h mountainous sea : Scudded before it uifdeivlow sail, the wind veering to S.W., and blowing with hurricane force.