IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 224, 19 September 1894, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Waimate, from Glasgow:—Rails and general machinery, £1,600 ; hardware and cutlery,-£500; bar, and rod iron, 54 tons ; pig iron, 100 tons ; pig lead, 7 tons ; cod oil, 2,200 gallons; mineral oil. 1,000 gallons ; glue, 50cwt; whito lead, 17 tons ; glass bottles, £90; canvas, £50; slates, 30 tons • cement,, 500 barrels ; British spirits, in bulk, 1,110 gallons ; do., in case, 880 gallons ; assorted oilmen's stores, £60 ; pickles and sauces, £30 ; isinglass and gelatine, £30; starch, £40 ; sheep dip, £380 ;. cornflour, £690; tobal declared value of cargo, £6,200.

The s.s. Poherua sailed for Newcastle yesterday afternoon. , The e.s. Wairarapa was at Chelsea all day taking in sugar for the South. The brigantine Ocean Ranger left Poro Chalmers yesterday for Greymouth, to load for Melbourne. Owing to heavy weather on the coasb, the schooner Medora from bhis port, bound north, put into Marsden Point yesterday; for shelter. Mr J. J. Craig has received a cable to the \ effecb that the barques. Devonport and Acacia sailed yesterday for Auckland from Newcastle with coal. The s.s. Taieri leaves tho Bluff on Monday, 24th September, for Auckland, via Oamaru and Timaru, and is due at this port on Sunday, September 30th. The s.s. Chelmsford is gaining in popularity since her overhaul. She now affords comfortable passenger accommodation, and in spite of the rough trip up this time she made the passage in the good time of 16 hours.

The ship Waimate reports speaking the following vessels on the passage from Glasgow:—On July 1, the four-masted barque Robert Fernie, bound from Cardiff to Capetown; on Augusb 7, four-masted barque Fackadale, from New ¥ork bo Java ; on Augusb 17, the four-masted barque Armidale, from Tonsberg to Melbourne.