IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 281, 26 November 1896, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Fer Flora, from tho South :—2O baes linseed, 232 caaea condensed milk, 938 pipe?, 50 connections, 403 boxes cornflour, 110 bags flour, 35 sacks oat?, f>fi sacks oatmeal, 121 sackf) malt, 19 blocks stone, 126 sacks potatoes, 2 drums oil, MSO packages tea, 999 stee! rails, 200 caso3 sugar, 75 bags uugar, 29 packages sultanas, 48 tyres. Per i'ukaki, irom Fiji : — 2,000 tons sugar.

The schooner Clansman has been fixed to load at Sydney for Auckland.

Lspt evening the p.p. Dicigariee Jofb for Wellington, via East CoasS port?.

Tiia 1t,2v1.5. A'lariposa 13 due from Sydrtey to-morrow evening, and Jeav6a on Saturday for San Francisco, via Apia and Honolulu.

The p.s. Tasmania leffc Sydney lapfc evening for thia porfc, and should arrive early nexi; Monday morning1. She leaves for tho South on Tuesday.

Tho Rtsamer Richmond returns this evening frcra Whantraiei, where she has bcet3 coalinp. Hhe leaves to morrow morni:»2 for Karotonga and Tahiti.

The e.s. Pukaki arrived early thia mornintj from Fiji, with a full cargo of raw sngw. In tha course of the morning she proceeded up to Chelsea to discharge her cirgo ft the Sugar Works.

The N'irthern Company's n^w paddle fifeacuer Wakatere left Kriebans on the 2ftth instant, and should arrive at Auckland on Monday or Tuesday next. Siio i e coining out tinder command ot Captain Farquhar.

Tho other evening tho paddle steamer Eagle, returning from the Thames after towing off tho barque Asia, with the p.s. Osprey, beat the Osprey on tho run up to Auckland by a quarter of an hour, the Esjlq Ukinir 4 hours on tho trip and the Orprey 4} hours.

Caphiin Bibbinrr, master of the Presbyterian Mission steamer Dayspring, which was reccnUy wrpckeri between Now Caledonia and the New Hebrides, arrived in Auckland Hub woek from Sydney. He waa formerly cecoiid mute of the old mission schooner Southern Cross.

The s,=). Fiora arrived from tho Souths shortiy after 10 a.m. to-day. The pureee. I\lr Isaac, reports that the steamer la/t Dunedin on tho 21st insb., called, at Lybtelton, Wellington, Napier, and Giafaorno, and leaving the latter porb afe 9 a.m. yesterday, arrived as above. The Flora is j to run fortnightly trips between Dunedin and Auckland, in conjunction with the Te .Anau. during the summer months. Capfeaia Hernech is in command, with Air Cameron chief officer, Mr Troup second, and Mr Ewing third;* while Messrs Robertson, Crawford, and Stevens are first, (second, and third engineers respectively.