EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 53, 6 March 1889, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per s.s. Tarawera, for Sydney : 75 cases ale, 6 packages lisli, 1 i>l kegs b«jf, 25 sacks oysters, 95 cases butter, 5 cases bacon, 22 cases chee-e, 60 sacks potatoes, 134 sucks onions, 30 coils rope, 6 ko<ja pork, 128 pieces timber, '60 bundkw handles, 5 casks limejuice, 12 cases apples, 5 cases eggs, and a large quantity of brau, Hour, oats, and chaff. Per h.s. Wainui, for Fiji: 95 bap:*? sugar, 44 boxes soap, 12 barrels ale, 25 cases salmon, 43 packages fio.ur, 6 eases tobacco, 24 cased canned goods, 41 anchors, 20 boxe-s butter, 10 cases fish, 432 kegs beef, 529 Backs potatoes, 51 sucks onions, '2 cases cheese, 12 casts fruit, 5 .sacks wheat, 8 sacks garlic, 2 sacks oats, 418 ease.- meats, 3 kegs pork, 42 tins biscuits, 40 tins bread, 10 crates poultry, 29 eases apples, 2 harrows, 84 sacks lime, 57 sheop, 8 pigs, 22 lambs, 2 dogs, 3,000 feet and 5,-!22 pieces timber, 8 sticks vegetables, 34 sucks bran, 2 lengths chain, U doors, o2 sash weights, and sundries. Per schooner Waiapu, for East Coast : 55 Bteel rails, 10 kegs ale, 800 posts, 20 sac*e flour, 3 ploughs, 3 cases galvanised iron, 5 casks cement, 3 keys powder, o packages hardware and sundries.

Inwards Coastwise. - Wanderer, cutter, from the Great Barriei, with posts and tirewood ; Otahuhu, cutter, from the Thames, with timber ; Lsah, cutter, i'ruin Waiheke, ■with firewood ; Pukapuka, scow, from the Great Barrier, with 40 tons wood ; Wear, cutter, from the Wade, with 40 sucks charcoal, fruit, etc.

Outwards Coastwise. —Norah, scow, for the Great Barrier, in ballast ; VVaifcemata, scow, for Port Charles, in ballast ; Lagoon, scow, for Cabbage Bay, in ballast ; Wear, cutter, for J'uhoi, with .stores, etc.; TumaUi Packet, cutter for Waihuko, i" ballast; Mana, cutter, for Tuiruu, with stores, produce, etc.

About 6 o'clock last evening- the s.s. Tarawera sailed for Sydney with passengers* as detailed in our yesterday's issue.

Captain Fitzrald Castle, the new commander of H.M.s. Rapid, arrived from Sydney by the s.s. Waihora last evening.

The barque Kingdom of' Sweden has almost completed her loading, and tails ior London in a few days.

This afternoon the schooner Queen sails for her usual Northern port oi lio. iunya, with general car^o.

During to day the s.s. Waihora was dis charging her Sydciey cargo a'u the Queon Btreeo Wharf.

Tho coastal schooner Waiapu sailed about 11 a.m. to-day ior Tairuu and tiisborne via the Ease Coast, with general cargo, stores, etc.

Shortly after 8 a.m. to-'-lay the s.s. Chelmsford left for her usual Hay of Plentyport of Upotiki witli passengers und general freight.

Last evening the s.s. Australia sailed for her usual East Coast.port- and Wellington, with a larg-e freight oi general merchandiae and a quantity of refined sujjar.

Last week the well-known barque Loonttana was sold at Hobart to Captain Evans for £2,060. At Sydney the brigantino Lookout has been sold for £490.

Yesterday afternoon H.M.s, Royalist, Captain Hand, sailed for Wellington, where she wili make a stay of a week or so, returning to Auckland in time to accompany the re.st of the lleet to Sydney.

The coastal trading schooner Medora arrived las.b evening fiom her regular trip to Awanui and the North with a full freight of tanekaha bark, kauri gum, produce, etc., which sho was discharging to-day at the Railway Wharf.

There is a probability of H.M.S. Rapid leaving for SamOii, before long, either to join or relieve the Calliope. She will most likely leave Auckland for Apia when the rest of tho squadron with tho flagship leave for Sydney.

On Monday last the s.s. Waihora spoke the ship Pleiades, which sailed from London for Auckland on the 28th November last, under charter to the Shaw, Savill and AlbionCompany,somo2oo miles to the westward of the North Cape, all well on board. The Pleiades should therefore arrive in port in a day or two.

The Nova Scotian barque Hamburg, Captain Caldwell, which arrived at Sydney on the 25th nit. from this port, nieb with very strong winds soon after leaving the New Zealand coast, and was blown out of her course as far as Norfolk Island, which was sighted on the 14th nit. From thence she had moderate winds across to Sydney.

At 6 p.m. yesterday tho s.s. Wainui, Captain Oliver, which lias temporarily replaced the Arawata in the Fiji trade, left for her usual ports of Suva, Levuka, and Navua with a full cargo of timber, produce, etc., and the following passengers :— Misses Thurston (2), Hastie, Mr and Mrs S. G. Vaile, Messrs E. Henderson, Corbett, Verschener, J. J. Lister, Mrs Watt, Waster Thurston, Mrs Message and family (5).

The direct steamer Tongariro was to day loading the balance of her frozen meat shipment for Home at the Railway Wharf, and sails at daylight to-morrow morning for Napier, Lyttelton and Wellington. She leaves tho latter port for Plymouth finally on the 21st inst. Wo learn from the New Zealand Shipping Company, the agents, that the accommodation for passengers is nearly all tal<en «P> ancl intending passengers from Auckland would do well to apply at once for their berths.

About 7.15 o'clock lasfc evening the s.s. Waihora arrived from Sydney with the following pas3engera:— Mosdames Anderson, Jones, Mortimer, Creyton and two children, and two Sisters of St. Joseph, Messrs Taylor, Anderson, Stringer, Jones, Trafford, Captain Castle, Dr. Craze, Messrs Shroff, Turner, Morton, Samuel Mortimer, Huo-hes, Horton, Baylis, Noxes, Jeff, Davidson"^), Briddraan and 19 in tho stoerago. Tho Waihora loft Port Jacfceon at 4.50 p.m. on the 28th inst., rounded tho North Cape at 11.50 p.m. on tho 4th met., and Capo Brett abeam at 9.30 a.m. on the sth, arriving as above. She experienced lino ■weather throughout with li^hb and variablo ■winds to arrival.

An invention has just been patented which, if it succeeds in what tho inventor has dcHitcnod it to do, would prove a real boon to humanity, that is to soa-travellinfj humanity. Ib h another attempt to solve

the problem of bho prevention of eoa-sicknoas, this timo by n Mi' Godwin, of London, whoso invention consists of n ship's berth ko Hiipportod that ifc always maintains a level position, notwithstanding Uie rolling or pitching of tho vessel. Tho berbh ia suspondod at each otid from brackets mado fast to tho bulkheads of tho oabin, the connection being a bail-and-sockou joint. From this point is hung a cross-piece li!;o a whipplo-treo at head and foot, tho ends of tho cross-pieces buing connected with tho four corners of tho berth by rods, which aro joined at every connecting point. Tho berth is connected with tho floor on tho under sido, near tho head and foot by two pairs of spiral springs, each pnir consisting of a weak and a strong spring, connected together and placed one above the other. A moderate roll only brings tho weaker spring into play, but a heavy lurch brings both of them into action, the check being thus taken up gradually. It is stated that this berth has been tested with every success in the steamship Sardinian during a voyage across tho Atlantic, an.) that it has also been tried on board the Invicta on the Channel passage.