EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 102, 1 May 1890, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per Anthons, for Molbourne : 200,000f(j sawn kauri timber from Aucklend, 100,000 ft eawn kauri timber to be loaded at Tairua.

Per Seabird, for Melbourne: 125,008 ft eawn kauri (to be loaded at Whangaruru).

This morning the ship Persian Empire, in ballast for Wellington, went out into the stream.

The brigantine Nautilus has entered ou* for Oeno, a small island west of the Gambia 1Group.

The brigantine Anthons, Captain McKenzie, haa cleared for Tairua and Melbourne. The barque Jtach Naw sailed this "morning for Whangaroa to loud timber for Sydney. schooner Olive, which- sailed for Niue this morning, does not call at the Kermadecs. The ship Opawa reached Wellington yesterday evening, from London, after a voyage of 106 days. . ' r The Auckland brigantine Parnell, now loading at Newcastle, takes her cargo of coal to the Manukau. The brigantine Seabird has cleared for Whangaruru and Melbourne, to load a kauri cargo at the former port. , The wreck of the sunken schooner Colonist, in Sydney Harbour, has been blown lip, as an obstruction to navigation. The schooner Olive, Captain Ross, under charter to Messrs W. McArthur and Co., Bailed this morning on an extended island cruise. The R.M.S. Ruapehu, from New Zealand has 'arrived at Plymouth with her passeugjr? all wellj and her cargo of frozen meat iii good condition. JshibGovernment sfeamerHinemoa leaves for' Wellington via Napier at 3 p.m. tomorrow. She returns hero in about ten days on her Northern lighthouse cruise.

The well-known iron barque Conference, Captain Lusher, has just completed extensive repairs and overhauling, at Newcastle, and is to load coal for V&m (New Caledonia).

The Auckland steamer Richmond arrived at Rarotonga on the 19th ult., two days before the s.s. Little Agnes left for Auckland, from Samoa, and went on to Tahiti. She is due here next week from Tonga.

-The R.M.S. Arawa, from London, via the Cape, arrived at Hobart at four o'clock yesterday morning, and was to sail for New Zealand at noon to-day. She brings 34 jjassengers for Australian ports and 64 for New Zealand.

- The little schooner Effie Meikle, formerly owned in Auckland, and well known here some years ago, was one of the Island vessels wrecked in the recent disastrous hurricane in the New Hebrides. She had, been absent Irom this port for many years. She was'a small vessel of 41 tons, and was built at Mercury Bay in 1872. The s s 'Duke of Buckingham, which has arrived at Danedin from London, is the eecortf of tbe New Zealand Shipping Comnanv's fleot of chartered cargo-steamers to %l&m-**** m Iβ an »roflYeepel v

her tonnage" being 2,020 tons nefc register, and 3,123 tons gross. Her dimensions are : Length 380 ft, with a beam of 38ft 3in, arid depth of hold 28ft sin. She was built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company in 1880, and is owned by the Eastern Steamship Company (Limited), Barrow. Her engines, which were also built by the Barrow Company, are of 400 horso-povver. She i 9 loading frozen meat, etc., for Home, in the South.