IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 95, 23 April 1889, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per schooner Sybil, from Long Island 100 tons guano.

Per s.s. Omapere: 141 sacks oatmeal, 2,110 sacks flour, 1,080 1001b bags flour, I*4oo 501b bags flour, 715 sacks wheat, 485 sacks oats, 872 sacks potatoes, 5 bales woollens, 30 bales hops, 13 hides, 150 packages sundries, 8 tons for transhipment to Tauranga.

Per s.s. Waihora : 590 sacks bonedust, 2,478 bags sugar, 50 cases brandy, 34 cases G. iron, '_-_7 sacks bones, 20 tons pig iron, 20 bales sacks. 1,000 spokes, 1,400 bags sugar, and 78 pekgs. sundries.

Per Saxon : For Auckland : 35 sacks pea., 50 sacks oats, 1 ton flour, 50 sacks oats. For Thames : 2.0 sacks flour, 250 sacks potatoes, 50 sacks oats, 7 cases cheese, 3 cases bacon.

Per s.s. Tarawera : 498 sacks oats, 219 sacks potatoes, 1,775 sacks bark, 458 sacks meal, 40 bags tapioca, 105 cases jams, 50 bales paner, 30 cases confectionery, 10 cases coffee, 200 boxes candles, 15 cases acid, 20 drums oil, 6 sacks bonedust, and sundries.

The S.s. lona calls at Tairua to-morrow morning on her way to Tauranga.

The Auckland schooner Agnes Donald cleared at Lyttelton for this port on the 16th insb., and was to sail next day with a freight of flour and barley.

The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s direct steamer Rimutaka, which arrived at Wellington yesterday from Plymouth, is to make Auckland her second port of call, and will take j. '**re a quantity of frozen meat for the. h > market. Her mails will be brought": by the s.s. Wainui, duo here to-morrow . vening.

Last evening ab 6 o'clock the s.s. Omapere arrived from Dunedin, Oamarn, Tiroaru, Napier, and Gisborne, with a freight of grain and breadstuffs. She lefb Dunedin on bhe 15th insb. at 10 p.m., and experienced strong north-westerly gales and head seas to Napier, and from thence to arrival sbrong southerly winds and fine weathor.

Last evening about 10 o'clock the schooner Saxon, Captain Martin, arrived from Oamaru with a freight of produce, the major portion of which is for the Thames. The Saxon left Oamaru on bhe 6bh insb. and had light N.E. breezes to the 12th, on which date Kaikoura Peninsula %v..s passed. Southerly winds then prevailed till the 17bh and the East Cape was rounded. Across the Bay of Plenty light northerly winds prevailed, bub were succeeded on Saturday lasb by a sbrong S. W. wind, which lasbed till arrival;

About 10.30 a.m. to-day the s.s. Tarawera arrived from Melbourne and the South with passengers and freight, as detailed elsewhere. 'Mr C. H. Humphries, purser, who favours us with files, reports that the steamer left Melbourne on the 9th inst., and Hobart on the 11th, arriving at the Bluff at 8 a.m. on the 15th. She left the same date at 5.30 p.m., and on her passage up the coast called at Porb Chalmers, Lytbelton, Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne. The latter port was left yesterday ab 9a.ni., and the Tarawera arrived as above. She experienced fine weabher to the East Cape, and thence to arrival strong head winds with heavy rain.

The s.s. Waihora arrived from Sydney ab noon to-day. She left Sydney at 8.15 p.m. on the 18th insb., was abeam the Three Kings at 3.15 p.m. on the 22nd, and rounded the North Cape ab 7.30 p.m. on bho same day, and arrived as above. She experienced fine weather with moderate easterly and head winds to arrival.

The well-known schooner Sybil, 150 tons register, Captain G. Bell, is again in port after an absence of several months. She sailed into the Waitemata this morning, and at 8 a.m. anchored at the Hobson-street wharf, being on this occasion from Maryborough (Queensland) and Long Island with a cargo of 100 tons guano. She sailed from Maryborough on March 21st last, and after a moderate passage reached Long Island, some 600 miles off the Queensland coast, where she loaded up with guano for Auckland. Leaving her anchorage at the island she sailed on'the 9th inst, and experienced strong easterly winds till tho Three Kings were made on Saturday last. From thence strong S.E. wind were had up the coast to arrival. The Sybil brings, two passengers from Australia, and is consigned to Mr R. Cardno.

Captain Ponnal, who arrived a few day ago from Sydney, had brought the Auckland brigantine Ika Vuka to that port from Port Sandwich, Mall-colo (New Hebrides). On leaving this port on February 6th last the Ika Vuka proceeded to Havannah Harbour (Sandwich Islands), to her new owner, Captain McLeod, and thence to Port Sandwich. While in the New Hebrides the tail ends of two gales were met with, one when in Havannah Harbour on March . Ist, and the other at Port Sandwich about March 16th. The latter, it is thought, was a touch of the hurricane that played such terrible havoc at Samoa. The harbour at Apia, however, the captain says, is not to be compared with Port Sandwich, tho latter affording complete shelter from the heaviest weather outside. His vessel, consequently, had little dii. • cultyin holding to her anchors. On March 21st she left Port Sandwich for Sydney with a cargo of copra, and arrived after a fine-weather passage from the islands.