EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 103, 2 May 1889, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per Rimutaka:—sos cases preserved meats, IS3 cases gum, 195 bales flax, 2 tons cheese, 3 bales basils, 3 casks pelts, and 5 tons sundries.

Inwards Coastwise. — Paku, cutter, from Whangapoua, with baulk timber; Fawn, cutter, from Whangarei, with fireclay ; Sunderland, cutter, from the Thames, in ballast: Fanny, cutter, from Whangapoua, with timber.

The lona will not make her customary weekly trip to Mercury Bay to morrow.

At the Queen-street Wharf the- schooner Three Cheers is loading up with general freight for Sydney.

To-day the s.s. Ohau was di-charging her freight of Southern breadstuff^, etc., at the Queen-street Wharf. She sails thi/j evening for Lyttelton.

Last evening the coastal trading schooner Medora, Captain Subritzky,

arrived from her usual trip to Awanui

and other Northern ports, with a full ' freight of kauri gum, tanekaha bark, hides, skins, produce, etc.

At Quay-street Jetty No. 2, the new Island steamer Little Agnes., which is destined to act a3 tender to the s.s. Richmond in the Hervey Group, has had her masts stepped and is being rigged as a schooner.

At an early'bour this morning the barque Ala.tor, Captain Glazebrook, was taken in tow by the tug Awhina and conveyed out of port, where she set sail for Wellington, taking a part cargo from Home to that port. At Wellington she loads up for London.

At midnight last night the s.s. Ohau arrived from Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, Napier, Gisborne, and Tauranga with a freight of breadstuff, and sundries. She left"Dunedin on the 24th ulb., and had moderate winds and fine weather on the coastal passage.

lie a song and dance challenge, J. Mooney writes : —To the Editor : Sir, — Seeing Mr Robinson's challenge in your issue of Friday, I think it right to give a few facts. 1 arranged with Mr Robinson to dance a match, and it was agreed to have Mr Hugo as umpire, he (Mr H.) promising to present the winner with a trophy in addition to the stakes. After the interview, on leaving Robinson suid he would only dance against me on condition of making the match for £5 a-side, and I to lend him my shoes for the contest, and appoint his own judges.—Yours, etc., James Mooney.

f' Recently a very heavy gale overtook th .c -' .. Melbourne schooner Swordfish on her pa; jr. 1 age from Tasmania to Adelaide whenfijfty 1 '-■ 1 miles off Kangaroo Island. The barometer I |suddenly fell to 2935, and the master got V_jf the vessel under low canvas before the I weight of the storm came on from south to I. south-south-west. The craft laboured I.- '"heavily for a time in the mountainous sea, I|i which broke on board with violence, and § suddenly it struck the master to try the I effect of oil on the troubled waters. Two I bags were filled with oakum thoroughly f*': saturated with oil, and made f. .a. over tho side. Then a raft of coal baske c,_ was constructed and hove over the hows, and bell tween the sea anchor and the od bags the ' I vessel lay-to during the extromo fury of the ; gale without shipping a sea or losing any of V her deck load of palings.