IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 156, 4 July 1896, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Corinnt, from Oamaru asd Timaru : 4,130 sacks flor^r, 1,592 sacks bran, 551 ■acks potatoes, 698 sacks 'oate, 14 bales woollens, 29 blocks stone. 2,041 sacks w;heat>, 375 sacks pollard, 45 sacks meal, and sundries. _ Per Taupo, from Tahiti and Rarotouga: 242 casks and 46 cases pearl shell, 16 cases vanilla, 6£2 eacks copra, 2,550 cases, 980 boxes and 48 casks oranges, 69 sacks cocoanubs, 505 bunches bananas, 99 casks limejuice, 15 bage coffee, *nd sundries.

\ This afternoon the e.s. Flora lefb for Southern ports. Last nigh& the s.s. Ovalau lefb for the Islands and Sydney. The B.s. Richmond arrived afe Rarotonga trom Auckland an the23rd ultimo. She is expected to return to this port about limrsdaynexb. . < A" larpe, f our^maated ■ ship', afceering S.S.U.. Vac sighted on the 29th ul*. by the ».b. Taopo, whioh arrived laet nigho from Rarotsonga. Tho Ysabal wan a6 Jlaabai when the Ovalau lefb for Auckland, harlng reSornea from Nlhq, Bh a may b» expected hero aboub the lObh Imt,

- After a passage of 14 days the barquentine Silver Cloud arrived in port from Newcastle thia morning, and was berthed at the Railway Wharf to discharge.

The Union Company's steamer Corinna, which replaces the Taupo in the trade to Rarotonga and Tahiti, armed last) night) from Oamaro and Tinaaru, with a cargo of general produce.

The fcopjail schooner Clansman, bound from Noumea to Ly&fcelton, with a cargo o? guano, pat into port this morning through stress of weather. The passage from Noumea was done in the record time of eight days, which is almost equal to steamer time.

The B.b. Taupo, from Tahiti and Rarotsnga, arrived list night with a large cargo of frait and general Island produce. The Taupe was somewhat behind time, partly owing to delay in loading at Society Islands and Rarqtonga, and partly to the strong head winds which she met with all the way from the latter port to Auckland. Mr Burnett, the purser, reports that the Taupo arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on the 13fch ulb., was at Takiti on the 16tb, aud having called at Pipeureri, arrived back at Rarotonga on the 23rd. Sailed at 9 p.m. next day for Auckland direct, and experie»ced continaous westerly and sowlwest winds with head seas to arrival.