EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 228, 24 September 1894, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Hawke's Bay, for Xondon :—IOO bales wool, 300 cases gum, and a quantity of Island transhipments.

The s.b. H'awke's Bay sailed this afternoon for Napier en route for London. "The 8.8. Fiona, from Fiji, may be ex- . pecfced to put in an appearance at this port , in a few days. The price paid for tho British biigantine L'Avenira, sold afe San Franciso recently, is said to be £200. A daring mariner named Captain Adolph Freitcb left New York on the 3rd insft. in a nine-ton schooner. He is bound for Queanstown alone. "H.M.b. Orlando, in the run down from Sydney to the stranding of the Ringarooma, did the passage in the email time of a little over three dayß. Tho schooner Gleaner cleared at the ; Customs to-day for Sydney with 95,000 feet of timber, She leaves the Huia (Manukau Harbour) to-morrow or the next . day..- • , v ■-■■ :''\ ~ ,1 ...,. :. The 8.8. Corinna arrived in port aboub '7.30 o'clock last evening from Wostport., Sibo le£b the coal pprb on Friday afternoon ifla'sfy and experienced light variable winds and fine weather thronghont.

The schooner Waiwera has nearly completed a thorough overhaul, on the Kauri Timber Company's slip. She has be?n purchased by natives ab Tonga and will sail towards the end of the week. - v ■

Tho cutbor Janeb is now abont doe from her beche-de-mer fishing at Long Island. Her owner, however," thinks ib probable that we may hear of her arrival at Sydney, where the catch could be more readily disposed of.

Captain Russell lefb Sydney on September 15th for West Australia, to bring the schooner Medea, recently purchased by the Wesleyan Mission for febeir island work, to Sydney. The Medea is a smart litble schooner of 124 tons, built in 1880.

The recent arrival of a fleab of deep-water ships ab San Francisco makes the elitpa of all.rigs and tonnage anchored within eight of tho passing steamers fully sixty. Not in fifteon years have there been ro many vessels lying1 idle.—Says the San Francisco " Examiner."

H.M.B. Katoomba is at present at Freman tie (W.A.). Word was received by the naval authorities in Sydney on September 14 that the vessel met with a terrific gale on her passage from Albany, during which she was hove-to for 19 hours. The Kafcoomba is expected to remain some time in \Vest Australian waters. ; ■, •'

Lieut. F. Boyer, of the French navy, to avoid collisions, proposes to introduce at the top of all fasb sailing steamers an electric light, which will cast a beam ahead to indicate the direction in which the vessel is steering. So long as the approaching chip waa not in the actual pencil of lighb ib would be unnecessary for her to alter her course. ■•",_, ■

, The well-known ketch Sea Nymph, was wrecked on September 10th at Plantation Crack, near Townsville (Q.) The report received in Sydney stated that" she Btruek a reef off Flanbabion Greek, and the captain considered ib necessary-to beach her." The ketch was a smart litble veseeMof some 93 tons, owned in Sydney by 'Mr W. S. Preddy, and sailed by Captain W. G. Carmicbael. The Sea Nymph, which has become a total Icps, was injured for £800, and ab the time of she disaster was bound from Newcastle to Townsville with coal. :

The ship Nelson, which arrived at Wellington on Saturday, had a rough experience between the Caps of Good Hope and Tasmania. The captain states that on August 26hh a fearful hurricane raged, during which tremendous Seas swept the vessel fore and aft, starting the house forward, staving in the topgallant bulwarks, and doing considerable other damage on deck. The cargo shifted on this as well as on other occasions, and those on board had an exceedingly anxious time.

The 8.8. Talune fromDunedin via coastal ports berthed at tho Queea-atreet Wharf at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr Tubby, to whom we are indebted for late files, etc., reports her dates of departures are as follows : Left Duoodin at 6 p.m. on the 19th, and arrived at Lyttelton at 9 a.m. on the 20th, left again at 6 p.m., and arrived at Wellington ab 9 a. mi on the 21st, left again at 3 p.m. and called at Napier on the 22nd, Gisborne on the 23rd, leaving the latter port at 10 a.m. and arriving in Auckland as above, having experienced fino weather throughout the trip.

Tho Sydney " Daily Telegraph " of Saturday, in referring to the new island service says:—The Union Steamship Company have made an important alteration in their island service, which will doubtless be highly appreciated hero. They have completed arrangomenta for a monthly service between Sydney, Samoa, and Tonga, to be inaugurated by the fine steamer Upolu. The vessel sails from Auckland for Sydney to-day, and will be dispatched hence on her first island trip on the 26th in3fc., taking passengerß and cargo. The Upolu was built expressly for the island trade, She ia a steel vessel of 1,141 tons, fitted up on a luxurious soale for passengers.