IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 222, 19 September 1893, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Wnirarapa, from Melboorne, Hobarb, and Southern ports:—l6l bags bark, 141 packages tea, 11 cases bacon and barns, 265 cases fruit, 31 bags bones, 26 balea paper, 4 bales kapok, 5 bale 3 cornsacks, 8 bags bonemeal, 7 bundles hides, 40 bags . peaa, 13 bundles sultanas, 137 sacks oata, 100 sacks pollard, 160 bags and 5 sacks flour, 20 sacks oatmeal, 35 sacks grass seed, 345 sacks potatoes, 800 sacks wheat;, 8 bags onion.?, 28 barrels and 19 kildns alo, 25 cases jam, 51 cases ale, 15 cases cheese, 156 boxes bloaters, transhipments ex Valobta, Oratava, Tainui and Matatua, from London, and sundries.

This tnorninc the schooner Isabella Anderson arrived at Kaipara Heads from Dnnedin.

The top?ail schooner Sarah Pile is to load tip for Norfolk Island. She is expected to sail in about a fortnight's timo.

Tho 'Seventh Day Adventisfc brisranfcine Pitcairn may be expected here trom Norfolk Island towards the end of this week.

Shortly after noon to-day, the topsail schooner Spray arrived from Gisborne, in ballast, and anchored off the 4 Hobaon-Btreet Wharf.

Lasb night the schooner Clansman was towed down to tho Thames to load timber for LyCtelton, where she will probably load grain for this port.

The Union Company's cargo steamer Taieri is receiving a thorough overhaul to her machinery, and is being cleaned and repainted in the graving dock ab Dunedin.

The American barque Mary Hasbrouck, from New York via ports, was brought up arid berthed at tho Railway Wharf this morning to discharge her cargo, on completion of which she will bo loaded by Mesara Arnold Cheney and Co, with kauri gum and flax for New York.

Mr \V. B. Oliver, chiof officer of the 8.8, Hauroto, meb with a very painful accident two days after the vessel lefb Sydney for Wellington. The vessel was ac the time rolling considerably, owing to a heavy southerly wind and sea raffing, and Mr Oliver, who was standing abaft the engineroom on the port side, was thrown to the deck and fractured his thigh. He ia nob expected to be ablo to resume bis duties for ab least two months.

Captain Mclntosh reports that the steamer Wairarapa left Melbourne on the 2nd iDBt., called ab Hobarb on the 4fch, Blaff on the Bth, and arrived ab Dunedin on the 9th. Sailed again on the 13th and called afc Lyttolton on the 14th, Wellington on the 16th, Napier on the 17tb, and Gisborne on the 18th, loaving the latter port at 11 a.m., and arriving here ab 9.30 o'clock this morning. She experienced north-east to south-east winds from Melbourne to Bluff, thence variable weather up the coast.