IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 247, 17 October 1891, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Handa Isle, from Newcastle: SGS tons coal. The schooner Dunedin \i loading general cargo for Napier. The schooner Jessio Niccol sails next week for Rarotonga. The brigantino Zephyr sailed this morning for Newcastle, timber-laden. The s.s. Mamari arrived afc Port Chalmers this morning from London via Hobart. A barge towed or pushed by a steamer is a "vessel propelled by sboam."—American Admiralby Law. The ship bonnago of Norway has advanced from 500,000 tons in 1860 to £1,500,000 tons in 1889. Of iron and steel sailing ships Great Britain owns considerably moro than threefourbhs of all that exist. Several sailing vessels are now laid up in porb awaiting a charter in the intercolonial trade. Timber freights are at present very low. The barque Star of the East, now in the South, will be the next vessel to load here for New York direct, to follow the barque B. Webster, now nearly full. Excluding missing ships, the monthly deabh roli of British seamen averages 150 deaths per month, or 1,800 per year, or if wo include'missing -hips, over 2,500 men every year. The schooner Waiapu, Capt. Nicolas, sails this evening on hor usual round of East Coasb ports, taking for Gisborne a very full cargo and deck-load of sawn timber. Tenders are now in for repairs to the locally-owned briganfcine Sarah file, but it has nob yeb been decided whab to do iv regard to bho vessel. /The lowest tender is £515. A wire from Christchurch states that the s.s. Tekapo picked up the steamer Beautiful Star with her crank-shaft'broken, ib is sbated, _0 miles north of Oamaru, and towed her into Akaroa. The ship Waitangi, which has dischaiged nearly bhe whole of her London cargo, is under orders bo proceed hence wibh all despabch to Gisborne to load wool there for Home, owing to tho ve«y early opening of the shearing season. Within the next month this port will be visited by three of the large direct cargo steamers, all within a few days of each other. Tho iirsb to arrive will bo tho NewZealand Shipping Company's chartered s.s. Duke of Buckingham, due hero about tho 27th inst. from London via tho Capo ; the second tho Shaw-Saviil s.s. Mamari, from London via South, duo Bfch or 10th prox., and the s.s. Maori, due,]sth prox. A London cable message in our yesterday's issuo stated thab "The Carnival, from Newcastle (N.S.W.), is posted ab Lloyd's as missing." There is no vessel of tho name in Lloyd's Register, and it is probable bhab "Carnival" is a telegraphic mistake for Cam Tual. The Cam Tnal is a well-known colonial barque of 505 tons, owned by J. C. Ellis, of Newcastle. Sho was built ab Sunderland in 1559. She left Newcasble some time ago, coal-laden, destination uncertain. The small steamer Lily, formerly in the Thames trade, is now on Mr J. Sims' slip, Customs-street, receiving a thorough overhaul prior to proceeding to Nelson, where she is to run in fche trade to Riwaka and Motukewa. She is being very carefully overhauled, re-caulked ami recoppered, besides having her boiler and engines thoroughly seen to and placed in good order by Air Yeoman. The whole vessel is to be thoroughly overhauled and refitted for the trip down. Captain J. Fowler goes as master.