IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1888, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per-s.s. Rotomahana, from Melbourne and South : 1 qr. -cask sherry, 1 balis cotton, 25 cases currants, 14 cases tobacco, .4 casks (sausages, 1 piano, 7 barrels alcohol, 2 drums glycerine, 8 bales herbs, 2 packages lithos, 42'dases drugs, 63 half-chests arid 9 chests teas, 1 qr.-cask gin, 1 case liqueurs, 2 qr.casks port, 1 qr. -cask sherry, 433 cases fruit, 61 bags bark, 707 sacks oats, 7 cases bacon, 250 cases jams, 7 cases peel, 250 boxes Candles, 50 boxes sultanas, 34 hhds., Iff barrels, and 16 kilderkinis ale, 4 bales paper, 2 cases fish, 2 ploughs, 1 drum oil, 121 coils galvanised "wire, Sicasesammdnia, 1 : bundle copper boilers, 48 leriisjths pipe, B.orates biscuits, 1 case cigars, 9 cases marble,* 2 cases kerosene,--- 2-cases jcoffeo, 5 packages furniture, 3 boxes boots, Irfaiife'coeoa,. 13 sacks' peed, 123 sacks flprir, 20 sacks oatlaieal, 130 sacks potatoes, 663 sacks wheat, !93 hides, 1 case firearms, 53 drums, 1 case cheese/ 5 packages'■skiris, 304 packaged transhipments ex s.s. Kaikoura, and sundries.. .* . '.;,;.- '

pier schooner Glencairn, from Lyttelton : 955 bags wheat, and (say) 250 sacks grain for Thames.

Inwards Coastwise.—Paku, cutter, from Tairua, with 25,000 ft -.timber ;■• We.iten.ata, bcow, from W'hangapoua, with logs.

Outwards CbAi?T^Sß.— Eleanor Morton, cutter, for Opotiki, with general cargo; Paltu- cutter, for Whangapoua, in ballast; Elsie, ketch, for Whangarei, in ballast,

Jjaab evening the s.s. .Wellington left for Whangarei, with pasaengers arid cargo. '

• The s.s. Tarawem was to-day employed in discharging her Australian cargo. ; ;

The ship Killochan is still, putting out her cargo at the Queen-street Wharf;

The ship Crusader is taking in her cargo ' of' Itaiiri gumi ; etc., for London at the Queen-street Wharf. ,

Early this morning the brigantine Parnell ! got away for Kaipara, where she is' to load timber for Australian porta. •'

A survey for the'defences of the Straits Jjet'veeri Vancouver Island and North Amerjca is to be made by H. M.S. Caroline.

The cruisers being constructed for the Australian auxiliary; fleet at Sir William Arin.troiig's factory are to possess a speed of 19 knots per hour. ■••• ••

To day the 8;S. Rotoraaharia was busily engaged taking: m cargo for Sydney. # She leaves at 5 o'clock bins afternoon, with a ;.*.' large number of passengers; the greater proportion of whom travel steerage. *• The schooner Silver Cloud, now on her •way r.o this port, instead of bringing a full cargo of Newcastle coal as was expected, has ;oh : board a large quantity of general merchandise from Sydney. 'The-team'ship companies at Adelaide are making the experimbnb pf burning wood instead ofcoal, sp'fjvr with satisfactory results, .IfciSifound tha^abpnt two, tons of -wood are equal to a ton^of coal. ' v This morning the barque Deva was berthedat the Queen-street wharf, and pr|parations are .being made ..for.: getting-- out bar cargo to-morrow;':; After completing her discharging, the barque will take in aboiifc2oo.mangariese as stiffening, and then gp: ,tp N-apier to load"wool for England. ' ■•■ H.M-i new- slqopjNympb, 8 g uns A , 1,140; tons, which was recently, commissioned at Portsmouth, has been detained by tlie naval 1 authorities in cpnsfequenqe of her propeller having become defective. The' agents of the barque Stavanger, Messrs Cruickshank, and Co., have accepted tlie tender of Mr G.Niccol for the discharging and storing of the vessel's load of guano. When slie is Unloaded, the vessel will, be docked for, examination, most probably in the Calliope Dock. Experiments seem to show that a large ocean steamer, going at 19 knots an hour, ■will move over two miles, after its enginesr aro and reversed, and; now authority gives less than a mile or a mile and a half as the required space to stop its progres*?. The violent collision in some cases ddringfegs may-thus be accounted for.'■"'.'-. •' : Yesterday afternooni the schooner Gleneairh arrived from Lyttelton with a cargo of gk-in for this" port and the Thames. Captain flu ttoh^ trip that^ the schooner sailed from Lyttelton on the ;lCt/. ; irist. • with light sotithorly winds, which freshened into a hard gale on the I2tn. Tlie East Cape was rounded on the loth, •and calms and light head windscaused her to ; make slow progress; across the. Bay ot ;i plenty, prevailing-until port was made at ; 430 p. in.- yesterday. -I 1

Depioring the alteration lately ma.de by the Coinpsignie dcs Messageries Maritime*?. Co. ; with,respept to Mauritius, a Port Louis exchange says :—"When we take into cotfsideration that the important outlet to Australia for home produce which was opened to the planters and distillers of .Mauritius by the monthly and regular calls at Port Louis of such fine steamers as the Yarra, the Oceanian, and their; sister vessels will henceforth be a thing of the past, we cannot but feel dismayed at the dismal prospects which loom upon Mauritius in the near future.!'

* On July 26 Messrs Birrell, Stenhouse. and Co. launched from their shipbuilding yard at Dumbarton, a four-masted steel sailing ship, of 1,900 tons register, for "Messrs' Thomas Law and Co., Glasgonw. She is of the following dimensions :—Length, 270 f t; breadth, .Oft: depth, 24ft. She has been built under special survey to Lloyd's highest class. Sho was named Buteshire by Miss Howie, and forms an addition to the "Shire "Lino. When completed tlie vessel will load for Australia, under command of Captain McGibbon, late of the Agnes Oswald. , •

About 12 o'clock,last night the s.s. larawera arrived from Sydney with "the"following, passengers :—Misses Chambers, Daddington, and Heise, Mr and Mrs Featherston and boy, Mr and Mrs Cunningham, Mr, and Mrs Lasseron and family,(3) and servant,* Messrs Keefe, Jenkins, Langley, G. P. Cox, Percy Cox, W. Jennings, Shackelford, Geddis, Cair, Rev. Frith, Jackson, Davis, La Roche, Mons. Powig, O'Brien, Irving, Hollister, Hardy, Spier, and 17 steerage. Of the passage Mr Munro, purser, to whom we are indebted for files, reports:—The Tarawera left Sydney at 5 p.m. on the 13th instant, and passed the Three Kings at 1 a.m. on the 18tb, rounding the North Cape at 7 a.m. the same date, and arriving in Auckland as above. She experienced strong easterly winds with considerable sea for the 'first three days after leaving Sydney, thence light airs and calms with very*-smooth sea to arrival. The Tarawera brought a general cargo of 185 tons.

This season the question of coal supply for the home-bound wool-stearaers promises oo be a serious matter. Not enough that owners, charterers or shippers here,have to run the risk of securing freight or reaching a speedy market for their prd&uce, but they must bo brought face to face with a f uoldifficulty in a country blessed by nature with au inexhaustible supply for all time, and tin's, forsooth, because the best paid labourers in the world have declared that no fuel shall be supplied. .Last wool season it was sufficient if the vessel was telegraphed from Gibraltar to be in time for the wool sales, but we understand this season they must report at tlie Chanuel to be in time. This means several days' more steaming before they can be placed for the wool sales. As the sale draws near every ton of coal on board will be wanted to enable the steamer to save her reputation with shippers if she goes for the sales.—Sydney " Slapping Guide."

[ A late number of the " Shipping Guide " ! says: "The port of Auckland has aliarbpur 'Boardwhose past history in the Harbour Board records of the-colony, of New Zealand, well, ptttting it mildly, has :not, really not, added any thing to the colony's good name.in the way of prudent management Were the reports of thedoings of that body looked carefully up it would be found that individually a vast amount ot personal pique has very often determined the destiny of the port, whilo collectively the most shameful extravagance of borrowed mbnoy has gone on from year to year. It is therefore not the least surprising,to see that one of Auckland's, oldest and most esteemed citizens, the manager of. tbe Kauri Timber Company,* Mr Holdship; has just p.Ut,iin an emphatic protest to "the Board j asking tlsiit its policy of driving -hipping from the port, by reason of. the enormous I dues -levied uiider' the Board's authority; be reformed. Reformation comes late in the day, bub hotter late -than never. It is Rim ply cruel to see, if riot the finest; harbour in Australia, certainly one of the best, all But reduced to the position of n.closed port by muddle-headed management."