IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 140, 15 June 1893, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Ephialtes, from Lyttleton :—4,050 sacks wheat, 100 sacks pollard. Per Upolu, from Samoa and Tonga ;- -1,779 bunches bananas, 803 cases fruit, 14 sacks fungus, 12 packages old copper, 50 packages sundries, and 800 packages for Southern ports. Per Maori King;, from London :—SOO tow general merchandise Per Maori King, from London:—34 crates glass jam jars.—A. Tyer and Son.

The German warship Sperbor was in port ab Apia ab blie latest advices. The schooner Tafua, Captain Brandt, was ab Apia on the 24th nib. Shortly after noon to-day the s.s. Tata2 wera lefb for Southern ports Hobarb and Melbourne. The barquentine Frank Guy, from the Thames, with white pine timber, arrived at Melbourne yesterday. The Norwegian barque Jorgen Bong cleared at the Lyttelton Customs yesterday for Tonga, where she loads copra for Europe. From the Navigators and Friendly Islands the s.p. Upolu arrived at 5 o'clock lasb evening and berthed at the Railwuy Wharf. The schooner Marmion is to take a cargo of timber to Wellington, and thenco proceed to Greymouth to load coal back to Wellington. Captain Lewis goe3 ia command. Yesterday the barqus Mandalay sailed from the Bluff for London, with the following; cargo : —10,719 sacks oats, 1,980 cases meata, 133 casks pelts,' 102 casks tallow, 703 bales wool and skins. On the 22nd Juno the New Zealand Shipping Company's direct steamer Ruahine is to leave London for Auckland via the usual ports. She is due to arrived here about thotOth August. At Sydney the Auckland barquentine Waitemata has arrived from the Kaipara, after a very smart voyago of 6i- days. She is to proceed to Newcastle on discharge of her timber to load coal for this port for Mr J. J. Craig. The Norwegian barguo Ephialtes which arrived here yostorday from LytteltoiJ| left the latter port at noon on the 10th, and anchored outside last night, thus completing the voyago in the remarkably fast time of 3 days 12 hours. Captain H. H. Brown,1 who took the ketch Little Bill over to Queensland acted as coastal pilot.