IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 165, 15 July 1890, Page 4

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, Per Wairanfpa, from Sydney: — 1,500 felloes, 500 spokes, 20 cases glass, 30 hhds bottles, 33 drums paint, 95 bags bonedusfc, 419 cases fruit, 250 bags sugar, 22 cases tobacco, 25 eases cocoa, 995 bags rice, 200 bales hemp, 100 drums casfcor oil, 200 castor oil, and quantity sundries. Pers.s. Southern Cross, from Napier— 1&4 sacks potatoes.—Cuthbertson & Morton. Per 8.8. Rotomabana, from Lyttelton— 106 sacks potatoes.—Cuthbertson & Morton. Pers.s. Ohau, from Oamaru—loo sacks Canadian seed oats, 70 sacks dun seed oats. Cuthbertson & Morton, The Farmers' Agency, Durham-street; The cargo-steamer Colac leaves here again for Brisbane about the 21at inst. ' The s.B. Arawata leaves this port on Sunday evening next on her usual trip up to Fiji. ' ' The schooner Sandfly, once so well - inown as H.M.s. Sandfly and atterwards as an Auckland trader in the Islands, is nowtrading in the Solomon Islands for a Sydney firm. The schooner Sybil, formerly of Auckland, now owned in Brisbane, is at present away in the Solomon J elands, recruiting liative labourers for the Queensland plantations. The Mission schooner Southern Cross fcerthed at the Q.ueen-etreet Wharf to-day to take in stores for her next Melaneaian cruise. She saila within a week for Norfolk Island and the Islands. The barque Vivid has berthed at the Bailway Wharf to discharge her Howland Island guano, while the barque Loch JNaw Iβ alongside the same tee putting out her cargo of Newcastle coals. The Shaw-Savill barque Largo Bay, from London, was towed up from the •cowder-ground this morning and berthed at theQueen-8<* eefc Wharf to. discharge. On breaking bulk her packages of cargo aooeared to be in the best of condition. 1 he Xareo Bay does not load here for London, fcut goes South to load grain Home. The schooner Forest King, Capt. Runcie, Of Sydney, put into Port Jackson a few days ago, bound from Rockhampton (Xensland) to Melbourne, in a somewhat damaged condition and with a number of S ldsfc She had been caught in one of She terr fie gales which .raged on the East AflitnUan Coast a fortnight or so> ago and had a very rough experience. The S.E. gales ragS with hurricane fury for three gay?, during which time Iheechooner was love-to. but beyond losing a couple of bead sails the l kiytfo^^^| before and serious damage tvas done. , , , Besides the Auckland schooner Christine

Island and Norfolk Island, after an exceedingly smart round voyage. She reported having experienced fearfully bad weather on the return trip. It blew from the S.W. with hurricane force for several days, until Sydney was reached. Ab Lord Howe Island it was found that Mr Chas. Williams, who was for many years commander of the whaling vessels, had died suddenly. No Hobarfc vessel is perhaps better known out of Tasmania than the brigantine Camilla. Sho was originally built for a Leith fishing smack, and after doing good service on the Scottish fishing grounds was converted into a brigantine. Mr (now Sir) Thomas Elder, of South Australia, came out from the old country in the stout old vessel many years ago, when the voyage occupied over 100 days. The late Captain White owned and sailed the vessel for some 25 years, when she passed into the hands of Messrs W. Bel bin and Co., who ran her in the intercolonial trade till a few months ago, when she was laid up. The Camilla was submitted for sale afa auction at Hobart the other day and withdrawn, the highest bid, £380, falling short of the reserve placed on her. The Union Steamship Company's steamer Rotomahana, 1,727 tons, Captain Kennedy, arrived from Melbourne and Southern ports shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday, having been delayed by strong westerly winds and heavy head sea across the Bay of Plenty. She left Melbourne on the 2nd inst., called at the usual way ports, and took thirty hours on the passage up from Gisborne. On the passage from Melbourne to the Bluff she had strong S.E. to N.E. gales. She does not leave for Sydney this week, but goes up to Russell tonight to coal, and leaves here again on Thursday for Dunedin.where she will be laid up for the winter.