IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 121, 23 May 1889, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per ketch Catlin, from Dunedin: 400 sacks oats, 200 Hacks flour.

The schooner Louie is to load timber afc the Thames for Lyttelton.*

Messrsßigelow have finished re-copporing and caulking the clipper schooner Sybil.

The brigantine Linda Weber is taking in a cargo of coals out in the stream for the Kaipara. ~

The s.s. Richmond has entered outwards for Tonga. She will be cleared this afternoon and sail to-morrow.

The brigantine Eillan Donan was docked at high water ab noon for a general overhaul and repairs. The barque Essex came out first.

The barque Northern Chief has completed her loading of produce for Sydney and is to be cleared "to-day, and will sail almost at once.

The Auckland schooner Welcome is at present bound for Bockharnpton from Melbourne. She is expected to load back to Auckland.

The schooners, Waiapu for Gisborno, and Jessie Niccol for Dunedin, which loaded timber at Tairua, were to sail early this

morning.

The Auckland barque Devonport, is discharging at Sydney a cargo of potatoes from Tasmania. Afterwards she loads coal at Newcastle and brings it on here for the Gas Company.

The s.s. Uotomahana took in a lavgs quantity of sugar at Chelsea this morning. She did not, a« usual, leave for the South at 12 o'clock, her departure being postponed until 4 this afternoon. The ketch Catlin, Captain Norman, arrived from Dunedin about live o'clock yesterday afternoon, with a cargo of breadstuffs. She loft Dunedin on JVlay^th, and had moderate weather up to tho East Cape on the 14th, when a strong S. W. gale was met, heavy seas being also experienced. The weather moderated on the J7th, and S.E. winds prevailed until arrival.

The s.s. lona arrived from Tauranga via Mercury Bay and Tairua this morning-. She had as cargo 80 sacks aud 3 cases gum, 40 head cattle, and 5 tons sundries. Her passengers were: Messrs Dick, J. Rook, B. Smart, Maclowe, McKay, Moses, .Stewart, Ritchie, Brown, Young, Hockin, and Miss Jackson. The lona left again at 8 o'clock for the Barrier with cargo and passengers.

It will be remembered that the Norwegian barque Stavenger pub in here some time back in a leaky condition and had to be repaired. She has now safely reached her destination, and the captain writing to Captain Anderson, of this city, speaks in high terms of praise of the work put into the vessel here, and says that she is as tight as a bottle. Ho also states that he is ■well satisfied with the treatment he received here.

The contract for tho repairs to the barque Essex, damaged by a collision in Rangitoto Channel/ has been secured by Mr McQuarrie for £150. Owing to the necessary wood for a new stem nofc being in stock, the contractor has to go to the bush for it, and -until it is ready the Essex will be kept out of dock. Messrs Bigelow, who docked her, brought the Essex out at high water today.