IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 173, 23 July 1889, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Wakatipu—43b sacks bran, 945 do flonr, 31 do pearl bar lev, 1,109 do oats, 85 do pollard, 2,949 do potatoes, 2,527 do wheat, 70 do malt, 50 do oatmeal, 510 bags flour (100's), 980 do do (50's), 75 boxes soap, 100 cases jams, 50 boxes candles, 22hhds ale, 20 boxes tea, 17 crates biscuits, 18 bales paper, 3 bales bags, 21 trusses merchandise, 3 cases chicory, 23 cases tea, 20 cases nails, 12 bells sacks, 1 safe, and 62 pkgs sundries. For Tauranga—l7B sacks cats, 48 do potatoes, 205 do flour, 2 do oab husks, 25 do oatmeal, 700 bags flour (50's), 10 do do <100's), 1 cask coffee, and 2 packages sundries.

Inwards Coastwise.—Gipsy, cutter, from Whangarei, wifch fireclay ; Lady, of the .Lake, scow, from Hobsonville, with drainpipes ; Nellie, cutter, from the coast, with iish.

At the Quay-street Jetty No. 2 the fcrigantine Gleanor is discharging her cargo of Southern grain.

Before loading kauri here for Sydney the Ibrigantine Kenilworth goes into the Auckland Graving Dock for a survey and overhaul.

The s.s. Whakatipu, which leaves hore to-morrow morning for Oamaru, does not return to Auckland from that port, but loads grain there for Sydney.

The American barque SJary A. Greenwood, well known in this porb from her frequent) visits to Auckland, has sailed from New York for Brisbane wifch a general freight of American merchandise.

To-day the barque Belle Isle was towed down from the Sugar Works Wharf at Chelsea, where she had been discharging her Newcastle coal, to a berth afc' the Railway Wharf. Her outward destination is not yeb fixed.

Latest) advices from New York by the 'Erisco mail state that only slight reductions have been made in freight rates to Australian ports. Freights to Auckland by sailing vessel direct remain the same as ab the beginning of fche yeai-, 32 Ac.

Ab 5 p.m. to-day the s.s. Wairarapa leaves for Sydney with the following passengers : Mrs Comins, Messrs Dickson, J! Palmer, C. Lyons, A. Smith, P. Smith -i McFarlane, G. Pirie, Chas. Arnold, Thomas Morrin, G. P. Hudson,Mr and Mrs Coombes, and six steerage ; five saloon and five steerage in transit from the South.

Mr E. J. Touet, purser, reports that the s.s. Wakafcipu, Captain E. Wheeler, left Dunedin on thelsfch July, afc 5.10 p.m., and called afc Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Napier, and Gisborne, sailing from the latter port on the 20th, at 12.15 p.m. She. rounded the East Cape afc 7.30 p.m., and arrived here yesterday at 3.40 p.m. Sho experienced light variable winds and line weather on the passage.