IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 54, 5 March 1888, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Omapere—lso sacks bran, 100 sacks wheat.—Stone Bros.

Per s.s. Omapere : 250 boxes candles, 20 Poxes soap, 30 cases jam, 9 blocks stone, 100 sacks wheat, 360 sacks oats, 199 sacks bones, 175 sacks bran, 22 sacks oatmeal, 148 sacks grass seed, 610 sacks flour, 1/0 1001b bags flour, 200 501b bags of flour, 8b boxes soap, 80 sheep, 9hhd ale, 3 barrels ale, 45 packages sundries.

Per brigantine Eillan Donan : 418 tons coal

Per s.s. Australia : 180 tons ex Rimutak a» 600 sacks bonedust, 101 coils wire, 264 sack 6 crass seed, 25 cases ginger ale, 47 bales wool, 22 pigs lead, 42 packages sundries.

Outwards Coastwise.—Rata, scow, for Kennedy Bay, with 2 tons coal, 1 ton flour, half ton potatoes, 6 cases meats, 9 cases sundries.

The schooner Sandfly was this morning Entered outwards for Rarotonga.

The s.s. Chelmsford was this morning docked for a cleaning and to have everything prepared for receiving the new shaft which is expected from Sydney to-morrow.

The bricantine Forest King has-been taken alongside the Hobson-street Wharf. She is almost ready to start for Sydney.

The s.s. lona arrived from Mercury Ba> on Saturday night. Passengers : — Mrs Eartnoll and 2 children, Miss Maxwell.

The schooner Dunedin having completed her loading of tiles at Hobsonville, has been brought down the river, and is anchored off the Railway Wharf. She sails very soon for Napier.

The s.s. Omapere is to proceed to the Sugar Works this afternoon to load sugar, arid sails this evening for Greymouth.

Messrs Donald and .Edenborough have chartered the Tongan Government schooner Sandfly, and she is to be placed on the island trade, filling the place of the Atlantic, which was recently wrecked. She is at present berthed at the Queen-street Wharf, and her crew are busy bending sails, &c. Captain Harris, who had charge of the Atlantic, is to be in command.

The brig Syren has been taken round to the Queen-street Wharf, where she is completing her loading of fruit boxes for Sydney. She will rnosb probably sail tomorrow afternoon.

The s.s. Australia arrived from Wellington at noon to-day. She lefb Wellington on the 29th February at 8 p.m... and called at Napier, Gisborne, Tokomaru, Waipero and Awanui on the way up. She brings the following passengers :— Mr A. H. Wallis, Mr G. J. White, Mr H. McClv tehee, Mr R. Drabble, Mr Mitchell, Mr McLachlan, Mr G. Henry, Mr Peterson, Mrs Whitehead and 2 children.

The brigantine Eillan Donan, after a very lengthy passage of 19 days, arrived in port from Newcastle at noon yesterday, yhe lefb Newcastle on the 14th ult., and experienced southerly and south - easterly winds across to the Three Kings. From those islands down the coast she had light easterly winds. Fine weather prevailed throughout the passage. She brings a cargo of coal consigned to the Auckland Gas Company. She comes to Stone Bros.

The as. Omapere, Captain Smith, arrived from Dunedin, via way ports, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She has a large cargo of grain, flour, etc., and only one steerage passenger. She left Dunedin on the 24th ult., and called at Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Napier, Gisborne and Tauranga, and experienced fine weather and smooth sea throughout.

The s.s. Clansman, which arrived from Tauranga yesterday- morning, brought the following passengers:—Mesdames Wilson, Clements, Brabant, Bromfield, Ross and child, Clarke, Miss Clarke, Messrs Wilson, Humphries, Ellis, McKellar, Clements, Fer^usson, Isaacs, Brabant, Woolcock, Fraser, Bromfield.