IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 128, 31 May 1888, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Clnnsman-48 sacks maize. Per Omupere-184 sacks oats Per Mar.irou--120 sacks potatoes, 150 sacks oats, S3 sacks oatmeal.—Stone Bros.

Per s.s. Mararoa : 4 cases whisky, 1 case cin-ars, 5 quarter-casks brandy, 5 cases Honours 4°° ba Ss merchandise, -20 cases cornflour, 60 cases safe cure, 108 half-chests tea 175 sacks Hour, 1,792 bags bark, 13 baffa wattle seed, 547 cases fruit, 25 cases puTp fruit, 15 bundles willows, 200 packs bran, 20 cases jam, 3 bales paper, 1 bale paper ba^s, 18 coils rope, 200 boxes candles, 83 sacks oatmeal, 2 double-furrow ploughs, 33 packages agricultural machinery, 3 blocks stone, 1 piece chain, 2 bundles rods and boards, 1 roll canvas, 1 case paint, 50 sacks oats, 48 sacks onions, 90 sacks wheat, SB6 saoks potatoes, 50 sacks oatmeal, 25 sacks sharps, 164 sacks barley, 1 case glass, I horse, 5 cases tobacco, 1 case cigarettes, 1 parcel leather, 20 drums sheep clip, aud a quantity of sundries.

Inwards Coastwise — Nellie, cutter, from Tairua, with 29,000 feet timber; Evening Star, cutter, with 500 bushels of sand, from the Lake ; Moehau, scow, with 15,000 bricks, from Hobsonville.

Outwards Coastwise.—Mana, cutter, with stores, for Tairua; Ocean, schooner, in ballast, for Mercury Bay; Nellie, cutter, in ballast, for Whangapoua; Lagoon, scow, |n ballast, for Port Charles.

The barquentine Elenor Vernon has been entered outwards for New York.

The barque Marie Laure has been hauled out into the stream.

The barque Examiner sailed for Ly ttelton yesterday. Her only cargo was 10 tons of lime.

The schooner Curlew is to sail to-morrow for Normanton with a full cargo of timber.

The schooner Saucy Kate arrived from Mahurangi this morning with 1,500 bushels of lime.

The schooner Darcy Pratt lias been placed on the hard by the breastwork for a general overhaul.

The brigantine Aratapu, Captain Bowen, is to load timber at the Thames for Melbourne, and has been entered outwards at the Customs.

The steamers lona and Douglas arrived this morning, the former from Tauranga and the latter from Opotiki. The lona left shortly after eight o'clock for the Barrier.

The barquentine Silver Cloud has been hauled round from the Railway to the llobson-street wharf for the discharge of her cargo of coal, which goes to the Gas Company.

The graving dock and basin at Port Artaur arc being rapidly pushed on towards completion, the Chinese Government being very anxious to dqpk there instead of sending them to Shanghai, Hongkong, or Japan.

Tlio s.s. Te Anan took her departure shortly after 12 o'clock to-day for Melbourne via Southern ports with a large amount of oargo and the following passengers:— Slisses Allanach, Swan, Bhillington, RosItruge, Tucker, Mesdames Dudley Ward, Allanach, Akwith, Messrs Swan (2), G. Wooding, J. M. Houre, and 19 steerage.

In consequence of the serious indisposi{ton of Captain Ruxton, master and owner 3>f the three-masted schooner Jessie, Messrs Wctterhouise and Co., acting on his behalf, have appointed Captain Kead, late of the brig Restless, to have charge of the vessel. The Jessie is coming here with a cargo of coal from Newcastle.

On v February 22nd the long-looked-for opening of the Panama Canal through the JVlindi-hill, 4 miles from Colon, was finally accomplished. There is now a continuous waterway open from the sea at Colon to a v point near Bojio station, on the Panama railroad, with a depth sufficient to float a 1,000-ton vessel. Length of the canal new finished is 15" miles.