EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 4

EXPORTS.

* Per Handaiale for Melbourne:—23o,ooo feet sawn timber (to ba shipped at the Thames). The s.s. Tasmania sailed last evening for Napier, Wellington and Lyttelton. The schooner Saxon loada at the Queenitreet Wharf for Gisborne. H.M.B. Royalist Bailed from Sydney for ihe Solomon Islands on the 25th of last month. The e.s. Ohinemuri took.up the trip of she s.s. Arstyle, which was in dock, to Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay last evening. The Argyle resumes her timetable to-night. The barquentine Handa Isle left for the Thames this morning, where she ships timber for Melbourne. She was towed down to the Thames by the s.s. Invincible. The bricantine Eliza Firtb, now a*>

Picfcon, baa been fixed to load timber at Greymonth for Sydney. .

The barque John Williams, well known in connection with mission work in the Islands, left Sydney on her last cruise in South Sea Mission work on April 21. The barque on this trip is to visit Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Muo, Samoa, and the Tokolau and Ellice Groups. The John Williams is to bs replaced shortly by a steamer of the Bame name, which is to be commanded by Captain Turpie.

The barques Ardmoreand Sardhana, both recently arrived at Newcastle from Rio, report haviag a lively time of it at the lather port. At) Rio their cargoes were discharged without interference from the authorities, but work had to bo stopped for hours together, the men having to take shelter from tha Bhowers of bullets whistling through the rigging. When the firing ceased for a time and the men were able to resume their work many bullets were found embedded in the masts, bulwarks, and deck. Many narrow escape 3of being shot are reported from both vessels. One day Captain White, of the Ardmore, was going ashore in bis boat, and when nearing the wharf a shell burab in the vicinity killing an apprentice off the ship Crown of India, who was standing on the jetty. It will be remembered that the Sardhana visited this port some little time ago.

On their last trips across to Sydney from this port of the steamers Tasmania and Mararoa very rough weather was experienced, especially by the former vessel. The •'Sydney Morning Herald " of the2sth ult., in referring to the bad weather met with by the steamers, says:—The fine steamship Tasmania, of 2,500 tons, had a taste of the storm, so had tho 3,500 steamship Mararoa. Both vessels were coming to Sydney from Auckland, and the Mararoa was well ahead of her rival, thus escaping a good deal of the rough weathor the Tasmania wa3 called upon to encounter. Strange to say, the direction of the wind with the Tasmania was between W.N.W. and W.S. W. instead of N.E. as at Sydney. Here ib reached a force of 61 miles per hour, and the Tasmania's experience indicates that ib blew quite as hard off the land. She experienced it for 48 hours with a fcro mendous head sea, against which it was out of the question to drive her. Being a tiptop seaboat and nob loaded down to tha scuppers no discomforb beyond the pitching and rolling was experienced. The Mararoa came through the little she had of ib in grand stylo, and reached porb on Saturday morning, followed by the Tasmania early yesterday.