IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 59, 11 March 1889, Page 4

IMPORTS.

68 casks soap, 4 casks candles, 11 bale 8 drapery, 33 sacks ryegrass, 60 sacks gras s seed, 5 sacks clover, 4 bale.=s skins, 20 case 0 turpenbine, 7 bales empty bags, 47 hides' 20' sacks pobaboes.

Per schooner Jessie Niccoi, from Hobarb : —20,000 feeb sawn hardwood, 124 shafts, 1,000 palings, 2 ton 3 long bark, 755 sacks ground bark.

Inwards Coastwise. - Leo, cutter, from Whangarei, with 49 tons coal; Leah, cutter, from VVaiheke, with firewood ; Jane, cutter, from Mahurangi, with lime ; Wafer Lily, cutter, from tho Great Barrier, with firewood ; Wear, cutter, from Puhoi, with firewood.

This afternoon the American barquentine William Phillips, Captain Potter, sails for New York direct.

Early yesterday morning the s.s. Clansman returned from Tauranga with cargo and the following passengers :—Mr and Mrs Vogan, Mesdames Johnson and Laybourne, Miss Cleal, Messrs Grossman and Maxwell, and 6 in the steerage.

At an early hour this morning the barque Salamanca, Captain Cooper, was taken in tow by the bug Awhina and conveyed oub some three miles beyond Rangitota Reef, where she set sail and gob away for London direct, taking cargo as detailed in our Saturday's issue.

Yesterday morning the ss, Douglas arrived from the Bay of Plenty porta oJ: "Whakabane, Opotiki, Taurancja, Whariga mata and Tairua, with a general produce cargo and the following passengers :— Misses Arquitel and Parkinson, and MiGrossmen.

This morning H.M.s. Opal steamed away from her anchorage in the stream and proceeded out some distance in Rangitoto Channel, where some big gun practice was gone through. She returned to her moorings at noon. ■ H.M.s. Raver j also went out in the Channel this mornin g for gun practice.

The s.s. Maitai arrived at 7 a.m. to-day from Wellington and the Eaab Coast. Siie left Wellington on the 6th, calling ab Napier, Gisborne, Tologa Bay, Tokoniaru, Waipiro, Tnparoa, Awanui., and Hicks Bay. Fine weather was experienced throughout. Passengers : Judge Scaj.mell, Assessor R. R. Taheieri, a»d 1 steerage.

H Last evening the schooner Jessie Niccoi arrived from Hobarfc with a cargo of hard wood', bark, ebc. She sailed on February 16bh, and passed Cape Pillar ab noon on the 17bh -wibh a strong .breeze from the N.N.W. On the 18th at 17. a.m, she bad a sudden shifb of wind to the S.W., Ij,va heavy squall, settling into a fresh gale with a heavy cross sea. Frccm the 19th of February to the 6th of March she met with light variable winds, and. rounded the North Cape at midnight, on the 6' bli inst. During the remaider of the passage had light airs and calms.

The s.s. Te Anau arrived at 1 p.? .n to-day from Melbourne an^ the South with the following passengers : —From Mr jlbonrne : Mrs Connor O'Brien, Rev. W. 'G. Blackmore, Messrs *j. 11. Patterson, G' reham and child, C -'^\. Morrin. From Hobarb: Messrs J. Sfc ee i e and son, S. ' vV. Lovebb, Froni p une din : Mrs E. ■ Wy.m-Williams and i'^fanfc Rev. Neteon, ]Vjr and Mrs £• family, Mr Ycung. From * jyttelton : Miis Roskruge, Messrs J. 11. Brodie. P. A. Norbhcote, -/. R. Buxton, Percival. From Wellin? bon : Mr Mrs Pulford, Mr Mra Mclntryre and child, Mrs E. Moore, Messrs J. r L Kerr, L. Finch, R.H.Honston, C. A. Flyg - S r. From Napier : MessrsHof[mann,Davenf >ort, VV. Wakeford. Cox, Pownall, Weir, WJ n.gheld, F. J. EmpBon. From Gisborne: Alessr3 J. Orr and child, Mrs Watson, Misses Hall, Niccoll, Messrs G. R. Moo/.-e,, Harvey, C. Yon der Hyde, Sheen, Johnston, S. Wesb, A. C. H. ColHnfi, and 40 in the steerage. En route, for Sydney: — : Col. and Mr s Couran, Captain and Mrs Gilberbson, Mr -and Mrs Wharton, Mrs Barnet, Miss Br aithwaite, Messrs E. George, Stilleto, Bathgate. Steerage,

23. The Te Anau sailed from Melbourne on the 26bh ult., arrived at Hobarb 28th, called at Preservation Inleb on the 3rd, arrived at Bluff on the 4bh insfc., called at Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne; rounded East Cape at 6 p.m. same day.