EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 247, 18 October 1893, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per Waiwera, for Napier:-40,000 feet sawn kauri timber (to be shipped at 'Whangarei). 11.M.3. Katoomba is now due at Sydney ( vfrora Samoa. The barque Iris left Newcastle on the t3oth inst. for Noumea, with 585 tons coal. '■ The b.b. Manapouri left for Sydney last and called en route at Ruaaell topay. F > The gunboat Goldfinch leaves Townsville (Q.) this week for another cruise to the jkiSolomon Islands. . Laa'i evening the s.b. Southern Cross left ■for East Coast ports and Wellington with a jgeneral cargo. The French warship Duchaffault left Sydney on tho 10th inst. tor Valparaiso en route to Toulon. Messrs Donald and Edonborough's Island steamer Richmond ia due to-morrow from Tahiti and Rarotonga. The schooner Waiwera sails for Whanjjarei to load timber for Napier with the firab change of wind. The s.B. Pukaki arrives this evening from Southern ports and Giabcvne, with a cargo cf grain and produce. The barque Excelsior, Captain J, Henderson, left Sydney on the 10th inst. for Newcastle and Noumea. The topsail schooner Annie Hill arrived at the Thames this week from Lytbolton. She loads timber back again. The Shaw-Savill ship Westland haa started taking in the first of this season's wool for London. She will soon be ready to sail. Captain Fairchild, of the Government ateamer Hinemoa, telegraphs stating that the buoy at Shearer's Rock, on the Northern coast, is in its proper position. Yesterday afternoon the Hawaiian brigantine Douglas, in charge of Captain McLean, sailed for Surprise Island (Huon Group) where ahe loads guano for LytteltOQi Captain Ball, who brought the barque Gazelle from Rocky Island, states thab he is not going to navigate the schooner Annie Hill to Lyttelton and subsequently take charge of the barque Alcestis. This morning the Auckland brigantine lady Mabel, Capt. Richards, arrived from Bdithburg(S. A.), with a cargo of salt after, ■ protracted voyage of 33 days. She has fetrthed ab tho Queen-street Wharf.

H.M.B. Coracoa arrived at Wellington fchia morning from Sydney. After a shorb stay at the Empire City, she comes oa to this port. The barque reported yesterday evening ab the signal station proved to be the Wenona with coal from Newcastle, after a rather lengthy though nneventful voyage of 20 days. She entered port last night. The well known steamship Jubilee is to run round excursion trips between Sydney and New Zealand ports during the ensuing summer. Captain Ball, who brought the Gazelle from Rocky Island, goes over to Sydney to take charge of the steamer. On arrival at Vancouver, on Augusb 2nd, Captain Frazier, of the American barque St. Katherine, reported very rough weather in the Central Pacific recently. He gave ib as his opinion that the British ship Blair Athole, 150 days from Samarang with sugar for Vancouver, had foundered. The departure of the American Seventh Day Adventisb Mission brigantiue Pitcairn for Wellington aDd San Francisco haa been postponed until nexb week. The vessel is just out of dock here, and baa received an overhaul and cleaning rendered necessary by her long sojourn on tropical waters. The British ship Orpheus, which lefb Kobe (Japan) for Saigon in ballasb on August 17th, encountared very heavy weaoher, and on the following day went on the rocks. Assistance was quickly forthcoming, and the vessel was safely towed back to Kobe by the steamship Tokio-maru, arriving daring the afternoon of the 20th. Yet another attempt is now being made to raise the sunken ship Cape Verde, at) Hobson's Bay (Vie). Although tbe whole of his planb was smashed to^matchwood in a gale, Mr Loug, of Foobscray, is yeb hopeful of success, and has built two new pontoons, stronger than the first, for uso in connection with the raising of the vessel. The fine iron barque Northbrook, which left this port several months ago for London, is now on her way from Barrow (Wales) with coke to Sacramento (California). She will probably bring a cargo of timber from the United States down to Australia, in which case she will be in the colonies in time for next season's wool loading.