EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 146, 20 June 1894, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per Taupo for Groymouth :—-18 tons sugar.

The s.s. Taupo sailed tbis morning for Greymouth. The s.s. SouHiern Cross lefb lasb evening for Wellington via ports. H.M.s. Wallaroo arrived ab Wellington last nighb, 3 days 22 hours oub from tbis porb. The barque Antares is having quick despatch with the discharge of her salt, and will be ready bo sail aboub the end of the week, Messrs Arnold Cheney and Co., the agents for the Sadie A. Thompson, inform us that the barquentine will probably leavo Lyttelton to-day for this port. Tho P. and 0. steamer Himalaya, from advices received from India, attained an average speed of 174 knots from London to Bombay. The fastest day's run recorded was 402 miles for 24 hours. Ab the half-yearly meeting ot tbe Orient Steamship Company, held at London on tbe 27th of April lasb, the report of bbc Chairman showed thab the profits for tbe halfyear exceed bhose of the same period for 1893 by £14,996, plainly demonstrating tbe

recovery of the colony from the crisis of last year. The increase was due, not to the number of passengers carried, which showed a falling oil, but Co the increased cargo, especially Homeward, the exports Bhowiag an ever-increasing tendency. Southampton has again won in the race to deliver the American mails in London (saya an English exchange). The mails by the American 'liner. New York, and the White Star steamer, Majestic, left New York at the same ttime ; but those by the former boat were delivered at the General Post Office, London at 11.5 a.m. whilst those por the Mnjestic, which camo -by way of Queensiown, did not reach their destination until 11.34 a.m. " A clear gain of 29 minutes," says this authority. Steaming time across the " herring pond " is cut pretty line nowadays. «