IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 196, 17 August 1895, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per j?aupo, from Fiji :—7OO tons raw sugar.

Per, Defiance, from Newcastle :—320 tons coal., ' '•■ '■-'''

Per Poherna, from the Bluff, Qamaru and Timaru :—IS sacks grass seed, 2,279 sacks, chaff, 500 sacks oats, 56 sacks linseed, 1,845 sacks flour, 6,704 sacks wheat, 935 sacks bran, 1,587 sacks potatoee, 122 sacks pollard, 20 sacks barley, 6 bundles willows, 4 cases bacon, 50 sacks oatmeal, sundries and transhipments.

Per Upolu, from Wellington :—24 packages, ex Mary Hasbrouck ; 65 packages, ex Euterpe ; . 350 tons, ex Ruahine, from London; 38 sacks bones, 39 bara iron, 10 cass3 matches, quantity packages and sundries. '

, H.M.S. Lizard was in pert at Suvti when the Taupo Iqft for Auckland.

This morning the barque Callao was taking in a number of kauri flitches for London.

At 6 o'clock this morning the s.s. Poherua from the South with produce berthed at Quay-efcreet Jetty..

■ H.M.B. Penguin arrived at Suva from this port on the'4th inst., and left on August Bth for Tonga.

The s.s. Aotea, which left Plymouth on the 10th inst. for Wellington, takes up the timetable running of the Doric.

By the San Francisco mail official confirmation of the hews of the chartering of the Arawa to the Spanish Government for the transport of troops to Cuba has been received.

Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co. inform us that transhipments ex the Firth of Lorn, from Glasgow, now discharging at Dunedin will arrive per s.s. Flora about the 26th insfc.

The s.s. Doric ia to bo taken to Belfast to bo r'eengined and extensively overhauled, prior.to being placed in the China trade. Ib is inferred that Captain Snowden will command the steamer, in her new running.

The brigantine Defiance arrived last night from Newcastle with a cargo of coal, after a passage of 14 days. She commenced discharge ab the Railway Wharf this morning, and on completion loads at Kaipara for Sydney.

At 6'o'clock last evening the s.a. Taupo arrived from Fiji with a cargo of raw sugar. She left- Suva on the afternoon of Saturday , 1861, and met with strong southerly winds .until making the coast yesterday morning , , thence fine weather to arrival. The Tftupo proceeded to Chelsea, where she wae this morning discharging her sugar. The B.s. Upolu- arrivod at 11.20 this morning from Wellington. Mr Barnes, the

purser, reports that thu steamer lefo vVel

lingten ab 11.30 p.m. on 14bh, passed Cape r- Pallieer ab 6 a.m.naxb morning, was abeam ' of the Easb Cape ab 1.30 p.m. on 16th, • passed Cuvier Island ab 4.50 a.m. on 17bh, . and arrived alongside the wharf as above. ; Hid' "fresh and moderate southerly winds • and fine weather to arrival.