VESSELS EXPECTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 145, 20 June 1888, Page 4

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Coptic, R.M.S., from London ; sailed 16th

inst. _~ , Omapere, s.s., from South, Thursday Wainui, s.s., from Wellington, Thursday Wanaka, s.s., from South, Thursday Clairmonfc, brq., from Loudon, sailed June

Piako, ship, from London, sailed i3th May Trevelyan, ship, from London, via Wellington, sailed 9th April Killochan, ship, from London, sailed loth

April Deva, bq., from London, sailed April Ao Albert Russell, barque, from New XorK, via Wellington ; cleared April 11 Olive,schr., from Islands, early Seabiicl, briganfcine, from Newcastle, sailed

.thinsb. Oamaru, brigantine, from Newcastle, to

load Eillan Donan, brigantine, from Lyttelton,

sailed 7th inst. Gisborne, schr., from Gisborne, sailed 4th

inst. Linda Weber, brigantine, from Newcastle ; sailed 19th inst.

Inwards Coastwise.—Janet, cutter, from Mahurangi with 600 bushels of lime ; Wear, cutter, from the Lakewith 300 bushels sand; Mockau, scow, from Hobson ville with 14,000 bricks; Otahulm, cutter, from Cabbage with 7,000 feet timber ; Violet, ketch, with 36 sacks bones, 4 casks tallow, and 8,000 feet timber from Thames ; Pukapuka, scow, from Riverheacl with 12,000 bricks; Gannet, cutter, with 30 tons of firewood from Waiheke.

Outwards Coastwise.—Kauri, scow, in ballast, for the Thames ; Elsie, ketch, with 10 ton coal, 2 ton flour, 2 ton hay, 100 bags chaff, for Thames; Progress, scow in ballast, for Wananaki.

Outwards Coastwise. — Agnes Martin, ketch, in ballast, for Russell.

The s.s. Wellington left for Whangarei last evening with cargo and passengers. The s.s. Staffa came out of dock this morning.

H.M.s. Egeria took her departure on her surveying cruise at daybreak this morning.

The s.s. Wairarapa returned from Russell this morning after coaling. She had one passenger the Rev. Mr Hazelden. The schooner Norval with 53 tons of coal arrived from Opua yesterday, and is dis charging at the Railway Wharf.

The schooner Daisy, Capt. Wafcb, was yesterday entered outwards for Nine and the Friendly Islands.

The ship Mercia is now on the berth for London, and was entered outwards at the Customs this morning.

The brigantine Gael cleared at the Customs, Lybtelton, for Auckland and the Thames last Wednesday.

H.M.s. Underwood and Iris are to be stationed in Ausbralian waters. H.M.s. Orlando, which relieves the Nelson, will bring two borpedo boats with her.

The old steamer Annie Milbank is now lying on the hard in Freeman's Bay, and ib is the intention of her owner to have her broken up.

The schooner Waiapu, Captain Nicolas, arrived from Gisborne and other Easb Coasb porbs last nighb. Her cargo consisbs of 461 sacks barley, 100 bales hay, and 60 pigs.

TheN.Z.S. Co.'s Waikabo, from Napier to London, reports passing a vessel of aboub 150 tons, bottom upwards, on March 21st, in 26*23 N., 46-20 W.

Messrs Cruickshank and Co. have received a cable from London informing bhem bhab the direcb sbeamer Coptic sailed on the 16bh for Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury ; Auckland to be the first'port of call.

Capbain Forsdick, of the N.Z.S. Co.'s Waipa, reporbs thab on the voyage from New Zealand bo London, on March 15, in 19 S., 31 W., he sighted the hull of the Galgate. Every particle of woodwork had been burned, and nothing but the iron shell remained.

A message from Opotiki informs us thab Mr D. Gouk has abandoned the atbempb to geb off bhe steamer Chelmsford. She is imbedded boo deeply in the sand,- and her damages are more serious bhan ab firsb anticipabed. Mr Gouk was bo leave Opotiki for Auckland in the scow Lagoon to-day, with all bhe machinery and gear.