IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 109, 11 May 1896, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Tarawera, from Sydney: 270 bars iron, 3 bars steel, 67 bundles tubes, 30 packagea tea, 200 cases milk, 247 bogs

bark, 1,303 felloes, 300 bags salb, 120 rolls wire netting, 125 caeca turps, 200 empty hogsheads, 36 bags produce, 700 bags bonedust, 392 bags bones, 155 cases stout, 50 cases sultanas, 50 boxes elemes 2b° rolls lead, 50 pieces timber, transhipments ex Oroya, Orient, P. R. Lnitpold, Ville de la Ciotat, Centurion, Kotokino, Flensburg, and sundries. Fer Gleaner, from Porb Chalmers : 1,500

sacks produce.

Should the wind be favourable, the barque K. A. C. Smith will sail to-morrow morning for New York.

Thesis. Waihora lefb Gisborne at 9 last night, and ia expected at thia porb aboub the same time this evening.

This morning the barque Acacia was placed on the hard at Quay-street) for cleaning. She tows down to Turua tonight.

To-morrow Messrs Donald and Edenboroughs island trading steamer Richmond is expected to arrive from Karotongt* and Tahiti.

Tho brigantine Anthons, from Kaipara, put into Portland (Victoria)'on April _otb, short of water, and resumed her voyage to Fremantlaon Saturday, the 2nd inst.

The s.s. Star of England is expected at this porb from Sydney at the end of tho week. She is under the command of Captain \V. J. Reed, formerly of the ship Star of Russia.

The Union Company's s.s. Takapuna arrived from" the South on Saturday evening. At 6.30 sho grounded on the bank just before reaching the wharf aud has not yet floated oft. It is expected that she will leave again for the south bo-morrow morning.

The- s.s. Torawera, which, arrived from Sydney this morning, reported sighting tbe s.s. Tasmania at 1 a.m. on tho Bth, bound west, and a large barque oil the Three Kings yesterday morning, holding an eastorly course.

On Saturday afternoon the brigantine Defiance sailed for Kaipara to load timber for Sydney. A brigantine, probably the Defiance, passed Cape Maria Van Diemen this morning, bouud South via the West Coast.

The brigantine Gleßner arrived ab midnight yesterday with a cargo of produce from Porb Chalmers. Captain F. J. Blackwell reports thab bhe Gleaner sailed from Otago Heads on Tuesday nighb, the 28th ult., and met with strong south-west winds bo the Easb Gape, which was abeam on the 3rd inst., from thence to arrival strong northerly and westerly winds. The brigantine is discharging ab Quay-abreeb jebty.

The e.s. Tarawera arrived in porb ab 10 this morning.bub waanob berthed till 11.30. The purser, Mr A. C. Walker, to whom we aro indebted for files, reports that the gteamer lefb Sydney ab 8 p.m. on bhe 6th insb., cleared Jackson's Heads half an hour later, sighted the Three Kings ab 9.45 a.m. on 10th, had Tiri Tiri abeam ab 8.10 a.m. on the 11th and arrived aa above. Experienced fine weather throughout the passage.