EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 102, 30 April 1894, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Buteshire, for London : — 6,000 carcases mutton, 230 balea wool, 200 packages pearl shell, 20 bales basils, 150,000 feet kauri Hitches.

Per Mnroroa for the South : 1,9i!6 bags sugar, 3 cases rubber, 820 packages salt, 40 cases bananas, 125 sacks maize, 37 sacks oystcr9,'2oo ca<tes orangea,3o cases meats, 23 packages furniture, 9 sacks melons, 100 sacks lime, 60 cases hermatite, and sundries?. •

The Mararoa reports sighting the 'Frisco mail steamer at 4.15 p.m., April 2S, bound west.

The p.p. Argyle was floated .into the Graving Dock this morning for cleaving, painting, otc.

Captain Farquhar of the s.h. Clanßman resumed his duties to-day after a fortnight's holiday.

The schooner Welcome sailed yesterday for Tonga. She afterwards proceeds to Rarotonga, and will probably be away among the Islands for about four months.

We note from a Sydney paper that the new Anglo-Australian steamer Port Albert, of 4,140 tone, was to have sailed from Sydney for London via Now Zealand laßt week.

The P..8. Buteshire sailed for Lyttelton yesterday morning. From there she proceeds to Port Chalmers, afterwards completing her loading for London at Wellington.

A steamer was sighted by the s.s. Mararoa on the 27th inst. keeping a westerly course. This was most probably H.M.s. Tauranga from this port bound to Sydney.

The s.s. Mararoa berthed at Queen-sbreet Wharf at 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after a quick run from Sydney. She left the Company's wharf, Sydney, at 5 p.m. on the 25th inst., light easterly winds and smooth sea prevailing on the trip across. The Mararoa resumed her voyage for Southern ports shortly after noon.

The 8.8. Wairarapa arrived at 9.30 a.m. tOday from Melbourne via Hobart and Southern ports. She left Melbourne on the 17bb instant, calling at- Hobart April 19tb, and arriving at the Bluff on the 23rd. Strong N. VV. winds were experienced tp Bluff, thence fresh southerly to Lyttelton, followed by moderate northerly'and fine weather to arrival.

The s.s. Tasmania arrived from Sydney at 2.30 a.m. to-day, and berbhed at the Queen-street Wharf. She lefb Sydney on the 25bh inst. in the evening, and experienced strong easterly winds till April 28tb, thence light and variable winds with smooth sea till arrival. Since her last appearance ab thia port, the Tasmania has been docked ab Sydney, where she received an overhaul.

We take the following from the Sydney "Morning Herald" of the 25th inst. relative to the trip of the s.s. Aorangi, now at Lyttelton, from London :—The New Zealand Shipping Company's Aorangi, from London, reports that when crossing the Indian Ocean on 12th April ab2p.ru. phe was struck by a tremendous sea, which broke aboard amidships on the starboard side, carrying away the starboard lifeboat, and the latter coming in contact with the porb boat both went over together. The sea. broke into the stokehole in tons, and alao swamped the saloon and staterooms. Parb of the lower bridge was washed away, and immense damage was done to deck fittings.