EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 281, 28 November 1888, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per s.s. Tarawera, for Sydney : 708 packages butter, 61 cases cheese, 482 sacks maize, 80 sacks manganese, 24 sacks and 12 cases potatoes, 139 cases meats, 70 kegs beef, S casks pork and tongues, 1,060 sacks and 1,400 bags flour, 300 sacks pollard, 400 sacks bran, 67 bales flax, 16 cases egg", 12 cases fish, 62 coils rope, 34 cases gum, 25 casks limejuice, 25 crates desicated cocoanut and sundries.

Inwards Coastwise.—Mary Ann, from Omaha, with firewood.

Outwards- Coastwise. — Mary cutter, for Mahurangi, in ballast.

Ann,

The schooner Orpheus is loading produce, flour, etc., for Sydney, at the Queen-street Wharf, and sails shortly.

At 6 p.m. yestsrday tho s.s. Maitai left for East Coast ports and Wellington, with a cargo of stores and sundries.

Yesterday the s.s. Staffa left for Opotiki and other Bay of .Plenty ports, with passengers and a quantity of general freight.

The s.s. Arawata, from Fiji, left Russell at 1 p.m. to-day, and is expected to arrive here about 11 o'clock this evening.

The Glenelg is still bar-bound at Wanganui, and her departure from Onehunga is postponed till Friday afternoon.

At Quay-street, jetty No. 2, the schooner Sybil is taking in produce, &c, for Sydney, and«is expected to finish loading to-night. She sails in a day or two.

About 5.30 p.m. yesterday the s.s. Tarawera sailed for Sydney with a large number of passengers, whose names we gave in our yesterday's issue, and a full cargo of produce, flour, etc.

Having undergone a thorough overhaul of her machinery and hull while in port, the s.s. Ohau left last evening shortly after four o'clock for Greymouth, with two steerage passengers and a quantity of cargo.

Messrs Henderson and Spraggon, shipbuilders, have on the slips in their yard, Customs-street West, a fine twelve-ton cutter, the Sarah, which was completed some time ago.

At the Hobson-street Wharf the Manx barquentins Flying Scud has completed her loading of timber for Sydney, and Captain Corlett sails in a few days, after the rigging, etc., has undergone an overhaul.

The cutter Nellie, which sustained vory extensive damage some four months ago by being driven ashore at Whangapuoa, has been thoroughly repaired, and has arrived from Whangapoua with a load of timber.

About 4 o'clock this morning the s.s. Manapouri steamed down to Drunken Bay, and had her compasses adjusted by Captain Clayton, who is acting as licensed adjuster for the port during the temporary indisposition of Captain Tilly. Sho roturned to the Queen-street Wharf about 8.30 a.m.

This morning the Island brigantine Ika Vuka hauled round from her anchorage off the Queen-street Wharf in readiness to berth at the Quay-street jetty, No. 2. She has been chartered to convey a cargo, of produce to Sydney, and will start to load in all probability to-morrow.

During to-day the brigantine Sarah Pile ■was discharging ballast at the Queen-street Wharf. She commences to-morrow to load up with produce and flour for Sydney, and will probably sail from that port on an Island cruise.

The Japanese Admiralty has decided to have the bottoms of all the war vessels of that nation coated with a recently-invented substance strongly resembling the fine lacquer used in the wonderful cabinet work of Japan. The base in both cases is gumlac ; but the inventor has so far perfected the coating for vessel bottoms that there is no danger of its cracking or peeling. Furthermore, as this protecting substance is very highly polished, there is slight chance of "fouling," and the speed of the vessels coated with it i?, on this account, as well as from the lessened friction, materially increased.

The Honolulu exchanges report the move meats of her Majesty's ships as follows ;—

The British warship Hyacinth is expected back here from tho Islands in six weeks. The Cormorant arrived on October 3 from Esquimalt, British Columbia. Admiral Heneago's flagship Swiftsuro is likely to arrive, from Callao during this month, and orders for a supply of provisions and 800 tons of coal have preceded her. The Conquest is expected in Honolulu from the coast of Chili within a short timo. Tho Espeigle, whose arrival at Esquimalt has just been reported, is also returning.

The s.s. ' Chelmsford, which has been undergoing repairs for the last three months at Mr°o. Conk's ship-building yard, Cus-toms-street West, in consequence of the severe damages she received by stranding on theOpotiki Bar, has nowreceived a thorough overhaul, and is again thoroughly sound in every respect. She has been given two skins of diagonal planking 1 inch in thickness, five sets stringers fore and aft, new cabins throughout, and has been completely re-coppered and re-caulked. All the deck has also been renewed, and everything has been done to make her quite ship-shape again. She will in all probability be launched on Friday next, and will be ready for taking up her service again in a little over a week. m

The surmise as to the vessel signalled yesterday being the barquentine Look-out, from Newcastle, proved to be correct. She cime into port this morning, anchoring in the stream off Queen-street Wharf. Of'the passage across Captain H'arwood reports :—Left Newcastle on the 15th inst., with lio-ht N.E. winds, which veered to S.E., and lasted for the first five days. It then' blew , hard from the S. W. for three days, afterwards moderating. The Three Kings were made on the 23rd inst., the North Cape on. the 24th. and the Little Barrier was passed on the eveningl of the 26th. Anchored ofTßangitoto Reef at 2 a.m. to-day, and got underway at daylight, arriving as above. Had S.W. and S. winds up the coast. The Look-out brings a cargo of 155 tons Newcastle coal.

The arrival at San Francisco recently of the five-masted schooner Louis, the first vessel of that rig ever built, adds interest to the following clipping from the " Kennebec Reporter," a paper published Bib Gardiner, Maine:— ■" There is now on

the stocks at Waldoboro one o_ the most remarkable vessels ever built in Maine. She is the largest centre-board schooner ever built. Her length of keel is 225 ft., breadth 501't., depth of hold 21ft., and her measurement will be 1,800 tons. She will have live masts of Oregon pine. We wonder if there is any limit to the number of masts for schooners. A few years ago only twomasted schooners were seen ; these were followed by three-masters, then four and now five. Someone asked an old sailor why there were so many three and fourmasted schooners. He replied : ' The missionary societies have been supplying sailors with tracts and Bibles, and they read therein that ' no man can serve two masters,' so they have increased the number of masts.' This may account for it."