EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 204, 29 August 1896, Page 4

EXPORTS.

Per Ovalau, for the Islands: 9,765 pieces timber, 229 bags sugar, 135 cases kerosene, 210 boxes soap, 10 sacks lime, meats, produce, 10 cattle, 14 pigs, 11 sheep, and a large quantity of sundries. Per Woo?upg, for Surprise Islands: 100 bags rice, 120 sacks coal, 88 pieces timber, 50 tins bread, 24 casks beef, and sundries.

The s.B. Pukaki left last night for Westport direct. H,M.p. Ra^'itl left the ijanukau yesterday for New Plymouth and Wellington. The s.s. Anglian left shoroly after noon to-day for East Coast and Southern ports. Tho barque Mary Hasbrouck baa almost coiiH'ietod the discharge of her New York cargo. •, ; ■ The ship Landseer haa been chartered to load general cargo at New York for New Zealand. The departure of the s.s. Fultala for Wellington has been postponed till 7 a.m. to-morrow. Tho schooner Clansman has been docked for cleaning and painting. Her overhaul is expected to occupy about a week. The ship Hermione,. well known in Auckland, and ab present1 in' Nelson, has been fixed to load at Lyttolton for London. Shortly after 12 o'clock last nighb the p. 9. OvalauTSfb for Tongn. Sumoa, Fiji, and Sydney. She called at Russell to-day for coal.. ...... . ;

Lieutenant Herberb Rogers, of H.M.g. Karrakatta, died in the Prince Albert Hospital. Sydney, on the 16th mat., of acute pnsuxnonia. «

The 5.3. Waikato will not load at Queensland ports unti^the.beffinniner of October. Meanwhile, Bhe will remain in Wellington for another month.

The trial trip on the Clyde of tho northern Steamship Company's new paddle steamer Wakatere was most succossful, the steamer doing 16 knots when loaded.

The barque Woosung cleared at the Customs this morning, and was towed to an anchorage in the aueam in tho afternoon. She is iixed to load gunno at Surprise Island back to Auckland, and will probably Bail about Monday. The Woosung has bow a very handsome appearance and i\ir G. Niccol is to be congratulated at the speedy Completion of the work of fitting her for sea.