IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 246, 16 October 1889, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Annie Hill: 1,200 sacks wheat, 500 sacks Hour, 20 sacks beans.

The s.s. Mararoa sailed for Sydney at 6 o'clock last evening, with a full cargo of produce and a number of passengei'3.

At the Calliope Dock the ship Carnarvonshire is reloading her cargo of Howland Island guano for Hamburg.

The New Zealand Company's ship Ofcaki left Lyttelton at noon to-day for London with a cargo, pf grain and wool. . . ■";■■

This morning the schooner Annie Hill berthed at the5 Quay-streofc Jetty to discharge her Lyttelton flour and grain.

The s.s. Douglas sailed last evening for Whangamatd, Tauranga, and Whakatane with general cargo.

The little steamer Vivid, running in the Auckland-Riverhead trade, has just re* ceived a thorough overhaul and refitting for her work.

The schooner Christine has berthed at the Hobson-street Wharf to load sawn timber for her next trip to Norfolk Island and Noumea, whither she sails shortly.

Advices from Sydney state that the Auckland-owned barque Presto, Captain George McKenzie, is loading coal at Newcastle for Noumea. From New Caledonia the Presto is to come to Auckland.

The steamer Australia left the. QueenBtreet wharf last evening for her usual East: Coast ports and Wellington, with a quantity of refined sugar for the Chelsea Sugar Works and some general freight.

The brigantine L'Avvenire, which ha 3 completed the discharge of her Newcastle coal at the Railway Wharf,^ has been fixed to eail next week for the Kaipara, with a load of general produce. At the Aratapu mills she loads sawn timber for Sydney.

The topsail schooner Annie Hill, Captain McLean, with a cargo of grain from Lyttelton, arrived in port last evening and anchored in the sti-eam. She left Lyttelton harbour on the 3rd inst., and had N.W. and N.E. winds with thick weather up the coast.

The s.s. Hauroto, Captain Kennedy, which reached this port at 3 p.m. yesterday, from Sydney, left Port Jackson at 6 p.m. on the 10th inst. Till the morning of the 12th, she had fine weather, then a strong S.S.E. to westerly gale, with heavy rain squalls, till making the Three Kings. Thence to arrival she had light and variable winds, and thick, rainy weather.

At 9 o'clock this morning, the s.s. Chelmeford arrived from Opotiki via Tauranga. She put into Tauranga and landed her cargo of cattle from Opotiki, owing to heavy weather coming on in the Bay. The s.e. lona, which arrives early to-morrow morning from Tauranga, brings on the Chelmaford's cargo. Tho Chelmaford leaves this evening for Tairua and Opotiki.

The British ship Gudrun, which has just reached San Francisco, some 280 days from Liverpool, has. met with quite a number of mishaps.' -On' the Bth of March she put into the Falkland Islands in a damaged condition. On the 6th of June she put into Montevideo with her cargo shifted, and was obliged to restow. On July 24th she was off the River Plate, with her mainmast sprung, and on the 29th she was back in Montevideo. •