IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 248, 19 October 1891, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Poherua, from Fiji:—l,soo tons raw sugar. *■""■ -' Per Richmond, from South Sea Islands : —2,036 cases oranges, 50 tins desiccated cocoanut, 489 sacks coffee, 291 sacks copra, 45 bales cotton, 2 bales fungus, 500 orange plants, 6 casks limejuice, 70 packages sundries. c Per Ivanhoe, from Rarotonga:—lo4J tons copra, ,63 casks limejuice, 1,000 cocoanuts, 1 taman log, 367 cases oranges, . 91 bags pearlshell, 35 logs baulk timber, and quantity wreckage from wrecked Bchooner Vanderbilb. f Per Handa Isle :—365 tons best quality Newcastle house and smiths' coal.— J. J. Craig, Coal Merchant, Arcade, Forb-streeb;

' ' The s.s. Pukaki is expected here late lojnorrow from Sydney. ;V * J The s.s. Talune arrived at Sydney yesterday from Auckland. The barquenfcine Handa Isle is discharging ab the Railway Wharf, The ketch Awaruais still cruising around the Hervey Group on trading work. ' "The barque Banksvillo arrived at London • 16bh insb., from Lyttelton, 98 days out. '■ The- brigantino Soabird went on the •' hard" in Mechanics' Bay this morning for , sighting. • The schooner Olive eails again for Tonga shortly, receiving cargo till to-morrow '-~. afternoon. "' America possesses nearly one-sixth of all the wooden sailing ships of 100 tons net ; : and upward in the world. 7 Afc the Queen-streob Wharf the s.s. . Wainui is loading up for Tonga and Samoa, " whither she sails to-morrow evening. The now 120 ton schooner being built at Rarotonga entirely by the natives, is now nearly finished and will be launched /" It is said that old sailors are made seasick by the excessive vibration caused by the propellers of some of the high-speed cruisers. The British iron bnrque Broornhall, Cape. Dundas, which was here recently, has just arrived at London from the Blutf, '_, 98 days oub. Tho s.s. Rotomahana is again off the Thames trado for a day or two having her " funnel lengthened, the e.s. loaa taking her place in the meantime. '' The p.s. Victoria was found adrift in the harbour early yesterday morning, but was promptly anchored oft' Freeman's Bay, and »;: then taken back to the North Shore. " The new river-steamer Paeroa had a very Buccessful trial trip on Saturday afternoon, doing her 8h knots in excellent style, bhe .-■-= leaves thia evening on her maiden trip to i< Paeroa. v Rarbtonca advices state that tho brigantine Linda" Weber, Captain Dickson, was • away at Atiu Island on tho 9bh inst. On reburning to Rarotonga she is to sail for Wellington. The schooner Torea will, on her arrival here from Rarotonga, go into tho trade between this porb and New Caledonia tor • Messrs Donald and Edenborough. bhe had ' not left Rarotonga up to the time of tho c.c. Eichmond's departure. By the schooner Ivanhoo from Rarotonga, ' Captain \V. Donald, late master of the , schooner Torea, has returned to Auckland. Captain T. Harris, late of the s.s. Litble I:- Agnes, has replaced him in command ot the , Torea. The American schooner DaisyFarlin, 443 tone, launched recently ab Bath, Me., con- : tains a somewhat unusual idea in her con- ■-. struction, in the filling of the seams below ' the water line with Portland cement, to preserve the oakum and keep oub worms. ; The s.s. Mamari, Capb. Maxwell, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday from London, is to come up here with part '.'■ cargo. She has 3,500 tons of cargo for the \ South (Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington), and 800 tons for Auckland. The c.c. Poherua, from Fiji, recently spoke, at the Ba Kiver, the Auckland schooner Opean. The Ocean left the Ba the 3rd mat. for the Laeawa Islands, _ to on a JecAe.de mer fishing cruise.

The schooner Jessie Niccol went into dock this morning for an overhaul. The first American-built afceel clipper ship, the Tillie E. Sbarbuck, has jueb completed a voyage between New York and Liverpool. Time from Liverpool, twentyfive days. Arthur Sewell and Co., of Bath, Me. (U.S.J, the builders of the big wooden ship Shenandoah, have contracted to build a sailing ship that will register 4000 tons. The keel will be laid this year. The U.S.S. Co.V s.s. Dingadee, Captain Stuart, arrived- at 4 p.m.' yesterday from Wellington via .East Coast ports. She left Wellington on the 13th inst., and called at Napier, Gisborne, Tologa Bay, Waipiro, Tuparoa and Hicks' Bay. The Atlantic steamers City of New York and City of Paris are sister ships, and in eight months their speeds average exactly the same, 18*02 knots. The Majestic and Teutonic are sister ships, but one is *16 of a knob faster than the other on an average. Ifc is estimated that the increase in tonnage since the last British ceneus was taken is about 1,000,000 tons, and despite the labour-saving appliances now employed on board ship in consequence of larger vessele, the number of men following t<l) a sea haß greatly increased during the past ten years. What ia claimed to be the largest threemasted sailing ship afloat is now en route from Cardiff for San Francisco. She is the British steel ship Ditton, built at Milford Haven for R. W. , Lsyland of Liverpool. Her registered tonnage is 2,850 and she will carry 4,500 tons on a'draught of 24 feet. London " Seafaring declares that dummy sails are carried on board steamers leaving and arriving at certain ports in England. Instead of sails, straw is seized to the spars, and sail covers placed over all, giving an appearance to the vessel of being properly supplied with square canvas. During the year ending June 31, 1891, there were built at Bath, Me. (U.S.), 44 vessels with a total tonnage of 34,809. These were : Three ships, 8254 tons ; three barques, 2580 tons ; thirty-five schooners, 21,254 tons ; one sloop, 22 tons. The previous year there were 34 vessels constructed in the same district. An unyinkable steel boat is the invention of \Y. Wells, of Leith, Scotland, who has secured a patent for ib. Ho claims it to be instantaneously solf-righting, while light, swift-sailing and good for any amount of rough usage. The principle is air and water-tight sections. Satisfactory trials have been made on the Firth of Forth. Three new Japanese warships completed in France have just sailed for Japan. These vessels are the Chisimakan, a steel dispatch torpedo vessel of 750 tons and 5,000 horse power, and the othere are the sister ships Itsukushima-kan and Matsushima-kan, steel battle ships of 4,278 tons and 5,400 horse-power each, carrying twelve heavy guna and fitted with a supply of torpedoeß, electric lights, and all modern improvements, together with a powerful secondary battery of rapid-fire guns. After a couple of months' trading cruise amongst the islands of the Friendly Group, the locally-owned smart little schooner Olive, Captain W. Ross, returned to port yesterday evening with passengers and cargo from Tonga. During her cruise she visited Vavau, Haapai, Savage Island, Keppels' and Tongatabu, discharging and loading cargo; fine weather being experienced on the whole. She left Nukualofa (Tonga) finally on the 6th instant for Auckland, and had light E. and N.E. breezes for the first three days, succeeded by southerlies and calms and then fresh N.W. winds to the Poor Knights (passed 18th instant).