IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 82, 8 April 1891, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Three Cheers, from Newcastle :—l6O tons coal. Per Clansman, from Newcastle:—2sl tons coal. Per Jessie, from Brisbane :—3,472 sacks bonedust, 366 sacks bones, 38 tonff coke. Per William Turner, from Fiji:— 672 tons ravr sugar. Per Kenilworfch, from Sydney.—l,os4 sacks tan bark, 1,200 felloes), 600 spokes, 20 tons bones, 20 pairs sliafts. Per Devonport:—426 tons Wollongong coal. ._ Ex Clansman :—145 tons best Newcastle bouse coal, 106 tona boss Newcastle emithy coal.-W. and G. Winstone.

H.M.s. Dart is now lying at Hobart. The barque Othello arrived at the Bluff yesterday from Melbourne. The schooner Jessie Niccol is loading up again for Rarotonga. The schooners Maud Graham and Alert have just left Lyttelton for the Kaipara. The large British ship Victoria Regina, 1,943 tons, is now on her way from Calcutta to Port Chalmers. The schooner Waiwera, of Auckland, arrived ab Whangarei yesterday from Gisborne, six days out. The next Sydney steamer to arrive here will be the s.s. Rotomahana, duo hero from Port Jackson next week. The ship Leading Wind will be floated into the Auckland Graving Dock on Friday for sighting and ovorhaul. ,The s.s. Waihora, Captain Anderson, went down to Drunken Bay this afternoon to adjust her compasses. She loavea for the South to-morrow. The new schooner Koe Bamu oe Übukalogalu, Captain R. Sopwith, sails for Vavau ■XTonga) on Saturday. She is loading some timber and stores, Thes.s. Napier, of Wellington, has been purchased by Messrs Keith, Ramsay, and Co., of Dunedin, to take up the ili-fatcd Steamer Kakanui's running on the coast. The barque Devonport, Captain Greenwood, has made a good run across from Wollongong (New South Wales). Sho arrived in port this morning, fully laden with coals. The Union S.S. Company, local agents For the R.M.s. Alameda, wish intending shippers to Honolulu and San Francisco by the vessel to make application for space before 15th inst. The Jessie, three-masted schooner, 247 tons, Captain T. Mahon, of Auckland, arrived from Brisbane this morning, 25 days out, with a cargo of bones and coke. She had some very rough weather on the trip across. The s.s. Omapere, due hove on Friday from tho South, brings up tho Auckland transshipments ©x the barques Hudson and Glenlora, at Port Chalmers from Home, for which Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co. are local agents. The ship Blenheim, whioh has been moored out in tho streum to the westward of the Queen-street Wharf, will remain there for some time, awaiting orders. She may follow the barquo Scottish Admiral, now loading, on the berth for London. The little s.s. Scotchman, which has been turned into a ketch for the costal Sfade, ■will not be deprived of her steam-power altogether, as she will still make use of her engines in conjunction with her canvas. She will probably go into the Northern k timber trade. •-. The Norwegian Veritas have made a ref'.ation requiring thab in future all vessels feeding 500 tone muet have on board ab

least live, and all smaller vessels three, bags ur other approved appliances, for the distribution oi oil in case of encountering heavy seas. The topsail schooner Kenilworth, 114 tons, Captain Moeller, of Auckland, has completed another intercolonial round. Sho came in this morning from Sydney, 12 days oub, bringing a mixed cargo, comprising bark, bones, felloes, spokes, etc. Sho is berthed at the Railway Wharf. The topsail schooner Clansman, 160 tons, Captain J. Bushell, of this port, has returned from Newcastle coal-laden, beating up the harbour to anchorage this morning. She is 16 days from Newcastle, five days longer than the trip of the Three Cheers. She had fair and variable breezes to the North Cape, chiefly northerly ab first and then S.S.E., and variable airs to the coast. She has some 250 tons of coal. The smart little locally-owned fore-and-aft schooner Three Cheers, 100 tons, Capt. Cranch, is back here again from Newcastle, after an excellent run across of elevon days. She has a full load of coals. She left Newcastle on the 28th ult., and had northerly breezes for tho first part of her voyage, thence S.S. W. winds till sighting the North Capo. She had some rather dirty weather on the coast, and arrived at 7 a.m. to-day.