IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 290, 6 December 1889, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Presto : 3,200 bags bones, from New Caledonia. Per Three Cheers—ls7 ton 3 coal.

The steamer Rotomahana lefb Sydney for Auckland yesterday. The schooner Jessie Niccol was berthed at the Queen-street Wharf to discharge her cargo of Long Island guano. The schooner Three Cheer 3 has berthed at tho Railway Wharf to put out her Newcastle coal. The costal steamers Clansman, Wellington, and lona came in early this morning from their respective call localities of RusBell, Whangarei, and the Great Barrier. ■ The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s chartered barque Lurline has completed her loading of kauri gum and flax for New York and clears to-day. She takes about 250 tons gum and the bulk dressed flax. The American barque B. Webster berths at the Queen-street Wharf to-day to start loading up for New York with gum and flax. She iollow3 tho barque Lurline on the berth.

The barque Wakefield, which was to load here under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Co., for New York, is now loading up at Wellington for America instead of coming here. Her place is taken by the barque India, no probably on hor way here from Melbourne.

The locality on the New Caledonian coast whence the barque Presto brings her cargo of bones is known as Ouaco, a small coastal French settlement and factory in the district of Gomen, on the north-west coasb of tho island. Large quantities of bones are exported to Sydney from this porb.

The ship Pleione, one"of the best-known of Anglo-New Zealand sailing clippers, has jusb reached London, from Wellington, so ■we are informed by cable, after a very creditable passage of S3 days. The Pleione, ib will be remembered, went ashore near Cook's' Straits lasb year, and came very near leaving her shatbered bones on tho New Zealand coast, bub happily is sbill again doing smarb work in the colonialHome trade.

Tho locally owned 100-ton fore-and-aft schooner Three Cheers, which is doing smart work in the intercolonial timber and coal trade, has jusb completed a very smart run of ten days across to this porb from Newcastle, wibh a full load of coal. She is still in charge of Captain John Bushell. Tfce skipper reports that alter discharging his New Zealand timberfreightatSydneyhe proceded to Newcasble andloaded up for Auckland. Onthe2sthulfc. theschoonersailedfrom the coal emporium deep-laden, and ran with strong north-west to south-west winds until the North Cape was made on the 3fd Inst. From bhab point she had a strong nor'-easter till her arrival in fche Waitemata yasterday. She anchored in the stream. The brigantine Stanley and barque Wenona, whose arrivals from Newcastle we reported yesterday, took 18 and 22 days reepectively for the run across, as against the Three Cheers' ten days' record.