IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 30, 5 February 1891, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Waitemata:—s3o tons best Newcastle house and smithy coal. — J. J. Craig, Com-merce-street.

Per s.s. Elberfeld, from Hamburg, and s.s. Hauroto, from Sydney :—4 tanks white and red clovers, cow-grass, Alsyke, Trefoil, and fancy grasses. .— Cuthbertson and Morton, The Farmers' Agency, Durhamstreet.

Ikwauds Coastwise.—Lee, cutter, from Mahuranjji, with firewood ; Nancy, cutter, and Norval, schooner, from Wbangarei, with coals ; Irene, scow, from Whananaki, with kauri logs ; Morning Light, cutter, from Cabbage Bay, with 6,000 ft sawn timber and 2,000 ft ship's timbers (pohutukawa); ToKerau, scow, from Tauranga and Thames, in ballast.

The Thames steamer Rotomahana is in the Auckland Graving Dock for repairs.

The schooner Fleetwing is on Mr G. Niccol's slip at the North Shore receiving repairs.

The American barque Essex, Captain Schaube, is now due here from New York via Dunedin.

The well-known brigantine L'Avvenire, Captain McArtbur, left Adelaide a few days ago for the Mauritius:

The well-known barque Sharpshooter arrived at Sydney yesterday from Noumea leaking dangerously, almost sinking.

The ship Opawa, which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday from London, made the run out in the very good time of 81 daye.

To-day the s.s. Taupo, at the Queenstreet Wharf, was loading up with general cargo, timber, etc., for Fiji, whither she sails this evening.

The s.s. Manapouri, which left Port Chalmers yesterday for the North, took as passengers for Auckland Mr L. Wilson, Mrs Stables, Miss Mason.

A cable from London to-day states that the German barque Mikado, from New York to Port Charlmers, had put in at Paranhyba, in Brazil, with her rudder head sprung.

The Island schooner Olive lays up here for the hurricane Beason, at the end of ■which Captain Ross will take his smart little vessel away again on a trading cruise to the Friendly Group.

The Auckland brigantine Stanley, Captain D. H. McKenzie, is now reported as lying at Rockingham Bay (W.A.) loading jarrah timber for Adelaide. She comes across to the Kaipara shortly.

Three new steel steamers, whose home port will be Auckland, are now nearly completed on the Clyde—the Northern S.s. Company's Waiotahi, and Union S.s. Company's Ovalau and Apolima.

A cable message from New York to-day notifies us of the arrival there a couple of days ago of the American barquontine Carrie L. Tyler, Captain Pettengell, from Auckland, 110 days out, laden with flax and gum.

The White Star barque Strathdon, 2,028 tons, now at Sydnoy, has one peculiarity in possessing the longest "stick" of any vessel afloat. Her mizzen-mast is in one length, without a break from heel to truck. It is a steel tube. The fore and main masts are all on the telescopic principle.