IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1892, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Manapouri, from South, 255 sacks ryegrass. —W. J. Hurst and Co. . Per Moraysbire, from London : 11 tanks English clover seed, etc., 5 tanks Pacey's perennial ryegrass.— W. J. Hurst and Co. Per s.s. Manapouri, from Lyttelton and Gisborne: —loo sacks Canterbury ryegrass, 48 sacks Poverty Bay ryegrass.—Cuthberbeon and Walker, the Farmers' Agency.

The s.s. Ardle left Newcastle yesterday for Lybtelton. The brigantine Defiance left Newcastle On the 3rd inst. for Auckland. The brigantine Darcy Fratb goes hence to Wbangaroa to load timber for Sydney. S.s. Wairarapa has been delayed South, and therefore will not arrive here before Tuesday next. The Vacuna, bqtn. (Plying Scud), which was reported as having left Newcastle for Auckland, is instead on her way to Picton with a load of coals. The Northern Company's steamers Waiotahi and Chelmsford were floated into the Auckland Graving Dock this morning for inspection and cleaning. The R.M.s. Alameda lefb San Francisco for Auckland on Sunday last at 4 p.m. (three days late), and is therofore due here on Saturday, February 28th. The cargo steamer Morayshire baa finished the discharge of her 350 tons of London cargo at the Queen-street Wharf. She goes South shortly to load for London. Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co. advise us that the Auckland cargo ex barque Westland, from Glasgow, is now coming forward, the first portion of which arrives by the s.s. Pukaki, due to-day from the South. The three-masted schooner Waireka Is out of dock, having completed her repairs, which lay principally in the shipping of a new rudder. Capt. Curran goes hence to Whangarei to load piles for Wellington.

The well-known Sydney schooner Sandfly, on a labour cruise, lost her binnacle by being washed overboard on January 17th, in lafc. 26*23 S., long. 153 - 59 E; her foretopmasb was carried away in a gale about this time.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Ruahine has now been fixed to sail from Lyttelton for London on April 16th, in place of the Tongariro, which will probably be despatched on April 30bh.

The U.S.S. Company's s.s. Te Anau, Captain C. W. Todd, arrived in port from Sydney early this morning, with passengers and cargo. She left Sydney ab 5.30 p.m. on the 4bh instanb, and rounded the North Cape ab 10 a.m. yesterday. She had fresh westerly winds to the North Cape, thence ligbb breezes down the coast.

Captain Joseph Goodman, master of the fcarquentine Ocean Ranger, reports that on the passage from Townsville, North Queensland, to the Chesterfield Group, ho sighted a line of heavy breakers from two to three miles long, etretching in a S.S.E. and N.N.W. direction ; and from observation by a good chronometer he places tho danger in latitude 18*44 S., and longitude 15702 E, and states that ib bears from the north elbow of Bampton Shoal, W. \ N.,distant oightyfour miles. Bearings magnetic.