IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 201, 29 August 1887, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Suva—_.- half-chests and 12 boxe3 tea, 20 cases ginger ale, 25 sacks bones, 5C3 boxes soap, 14 sacks seed,and sundries,

Per Gael—2oo sacks wheat, 523 sacks potatoes for Auckland, and 160 sacks oats, 414 sacks potatoes, 10 sacks bran, and 80 Backs flour for Thames.

Per Tarawera: 200 sheep, 2,34-9 sacks wheat, 1,532 sacks potatoes, 181 sacks oats, 200 bags flour, 51 and 140 bags onions, .220 cases Geneva, 72 cases Safe Cure, 22 Cases Tobacco, 150 iron pipes, 50 boxes dates, 97 packages tea, 50 boxe3 candles.

There was no sign of eifclier the barque Diamond or brigantine Peerless at Hokianga when the s.s. Oreti left on Saturday night.

The brigantine Lady Mabel sailod this morning for Whangaroa, where she is to load sawn timber for Sydney.

The s.s. Clansman arrived from Tauranga early on Sunday morning. Passengers :—Misses Clayton and Clark, Messrs Waddel, Tomlin, and Fisher.

The brig Restless and sohooner Jessie Niccol left Mercury Bay on Thursday last, the former for Sydney and the latter for Queensland.

' The brigantines Smaragd and Clansman are loading at the lower mill, and the barque Loch Naw at the upper mill, MerQury Bay.

The s.s. lona arrived from Mercury Bay at la.m. on Sunday. Passengers: Messrs Smith and Browne, Miss Barnaby, and 2 steerage.

_ The schooner Gael arrived from Lyttelton on Saturday evening, after a smart 'passage of six days, and berthed at the Queen-street Wharf this forenoon.

The 6.8. Suva arrived from Wellington ;,and intermediate ports about midnight of : Saturday. Passengers :—Messrs Pickett, 'JDaniel, Pooley, and Dalwood.

The ship Hermione has now been seven months on the berth for London. It is expected that she will fill up shortly with island produce, and get away without making the record eight months. ■

Eepairs to the s.s. Macgregor afcManukau will take longer than was expected. Her stern-post has been discovered to be unsound, and has to be replaced with a new one. A new propeller ia also being fitted.

The three-masted schooner Waireka was loaded at Hokianga on Saturday last, and wa3 expected to leave for Auckland to-day in charge of Captain Janes. The schooner Queen is to remain at Hokianga in the meantime.

The following small coasters have arrived :—Eleanor, cutter, from Tauranga; Eleanor Morton, cutter, from Kawau; Nellie, cutter, from Whangapoa: Waterlily, cutter, from Barrier; Lake Superior, scow, from Wananaki; Olive, scow, from Tairua; Paku, cutter, from Tairua ; South Carolina, cutter, from Barrier; Moehau, scow, from Pakiri; Gipsy, cutter, from Whangapoa; Atalanta, schooner, from Whangarei; Rob Roy, cutter, from Cabbage Bay; Waitemata, scow, from Mangawai.