IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 142, 15 June 1894, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Pet Waltewata, fr^m NeweaßtlO. :--493 tons coal and 10 tone coke.

The mission schooner Southern Gross wets taken to ao anchorage in tho ptreapj tbj£ uornißg.

Intimation has been received that the steamer Coptic baa been withdrawn from the New Zealand trade. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company's - 3.5. Kotuku was taken up on Bailey s slip i yesterday afternoon for cleaning. The Auckland passengers per the s.s. Rimutaka, quarantined at Dunedin, will arrive next Wednesday by the s.s. Waihora. Owing to the delay in the South the departure of the 8.8. Waihora from this port for Sydney baa been postponed till Thurßday next. Private advices received in town state that the yachb White Heather, which was hero some two years ago, may be expected ab this port from Japan towards the end of this month. H.M.B. Wallaroo returned to port this morning from the -Gulf, taking up an anchorage off the Railway Wharf. The Wallaroo leaves about 9 p.m. to-night for Wellington. She will return to Auckland about the 29bh inab.,and will probably make a longer stay in this port. The schooner Awanui was to have sailed this morning for Gisborne via ports, but owing to tbo light and battling air she was unable to get oub of the harbour. The following is her cargo list:—2s,oooft timber, 40 tons coal and sundries. The schooner leaves as soon as the wind is favourable. Mr J. J. Craig's smart barquentine Waitemata arrived last nighb from Newcaatlo after as uneventful passage of 11 days. The Waitomata this morning commenced discharging at the Hobson-street Wharf. Towards the end of next week she aaila for the Kaipara to ship timber for Sydney. Ib is probable thab we shall be visited ere lons by a Japanese warship. News was received in Sydney laßb week from Japan thab the Kongo Kan will leave Yokohama shortly for a trip to the South Sea Islands and Australia, calling ab all principal ports. She will carry a parby of naval cadets for special instruction. The vessel ia one of the Japanese armourclads built ab Hull in 1877, and steams 13£ knots. Two of the four new vessels for the Japanese Navy, the construction of which was authorised ab the fourth session of the Diet, are to be built in Japan. One is a 23-knob despatch boat, and the obher a cruiser of 22 knots. The steel plates, boilers and quick-firing puna for both ships have been ordered from England.