EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 139, 13 June 1888, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per s.s. Tarawera: 627 sacks chaff, 87 sacks carrots, 77 bales flax, 882 sacks oysters, 240 cases sauce, 147 cases butter, 50 sacks guna, 500 sacks flour, 150 sacks sharps, 28 packages copper. 140 casks meat, 20 cases mullet, 42 cases cheese, 1 box ferns, 1 box plants, 104 cases nuts, 20 cases peanuts, 20 cases pines, 1 case limes, 13 cases oranges, 200 sacks oats, and sundries.

Ls'wabds Coastwise. —Dungarvon, scow, from Waiheke, with 34 tons firewood ; Gipsy, cutter, from Whangapoua, with 20,000 feet timber.

Outwards Coastwise. —Agnes Martini ketch, for Whangarei, in ballast; Rita: scow, with stores, for Kennedy Bay ; •Waiwera, schooner, for Whangarei, in bal last.

■ ,2'he s.s. Australia took her departure for Wuliington, via the East Coast ports, at 6 o'clock last evening.

The old paddle steamer s.s. City of Cork ,is alongside thewharf undergoing a thorough Overhaul and painting.

The barquentine Waireka and the brigantine Darcy Pratt are still on the hard being overhauled. The brigantine is having a new mainmast placed in her.

The s.s. Tarawera left at 5 o'clock last evening for Sydney with a large cargo and passengers as per list published last evening.

The schooner Saucy Kate arrived from Mahurangi this morning. Her cargo consists of 1,800 bushels lime.

The schoouer Mariner with 55,500 feet o! timber arrived this morning from Whan

garoa.

The barque Killarney has finished loading ■ a cargo of 280,000 ft. of kauri at the Thames River Sawmill, and was to have been towed / down the river by the s.s. Rotomaharta this . morning.

Captain Schmolder,of the German steamer Lubeck, has the very latest chart of the entrance to Tongatabu, which shows some shallow patches in the northern passage, and the buoys in the eastern passage, and all the islands with their correct names, which were wrongly named and misplaced in the chart of 1886. The Collector of Customs there is responsible for this new chart, for he has had the superintending of the surveying for the same. It is published for the general information of mariners.

A decision has lately been given at Belfast to the effect that a claim for bond, rent and chai'ges upon goods that have been delivered cannot be enforced against goods lying in the bonded warehouseman's possession in the name of the party to whom the delivered goods belonged, and to whom credit had been given for the rent and charges thereon.

In Auckland shipping circles, where he was well known, the news of the death of Captain Ruxton, the owner and master of the barquentine Jessie, will be received with universal regret. It will be remembered that we announced a short time back that he had been obliged to remain behind in Newcastle owing to a serious illness, and now a cable message informs us that he has passed away. Captain Ruxton leaves a. wife and family, who reside in Christchurch.

The brigantine Authous, Captain Binke, arrived from Lyttelton at nine o'clock this morning. The captain reports of the passage : —Left Lyttelton Heads 4th inst., with a southerly wind that carried us to Cape Turnagain, off which we were on 6th inst. Becalmed all day, and the following morning the southerly breeze sprang up again, taking us to the East Cape on the Bth. From thence variable winds until arrival. Oft'Tiri at half-past six this morning, and was berthed at the Queen-street Wharf at 11.15 p.m. Experienced fine weather the whole passage.