IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 5 March 1897, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Dingadee, from Wellington and the Ea*b Coast:—3l druraa oil, 44 packages tea, 21 casks cement, 439 sacks boned nub, 774 sucks bark, 200 casoo sugar, 61 bars iron, 150 cases limojuice, 104 cases brandy, 15 boxes soap, 233 cases milk, 34 sacks seed, 21 sacks oatmeal, and sundries.

The bcow Wbangaroa arrived ab Porb Chalmers last evening, with a cargo of hardwood from the Clarence River.

The s.s. Richmond arrired from Wesbport shortly after 5 p.m. yoaberday, after a lair weather paeeage. She leaves this evening for Fiji.

Tha barque Seat King will be brought down from Chelsea this afternoon, whoa the work of repairing the veasel will be proceeded with.

The s.B. Taviuni wa« floated into the Craving Dock this morning for cleaning and painting. She leaves on her usual round trip through tho Islands on the 10th 183 1:

The barque Deronporfc, after diacbarg. Sue her coal into tho (Jnion Co.'a hulks, will be docked for an overhaul, after which eho leaves for the Kaipara, to load timber lor Melbourne.

The four-masfcsd schooner Charles F, Crocker baa completed the discharge oi her cargo of coal ab the Railway Wharf. Hhe will bo docked next weak for examination and repair*.

The B.b. Te Koa, having pat onb hor explosives at the powder ground, berbhed ar the Qneea-Rtreeb Wharf laafe oveaing, and commenced to discharge her cargo. She leaves for Wellington about Thursday noxt.

Tho brie Vision arrived from NewcAttla this morning, with a cargo of about 250 tons of coal. She left) the coal port 10 days ago, and experienced northerly breezes till making the Now Zealand coast, fcheneo iight southerly winds to arrival. The Vision will berth fchiei evening afc Ivlr J. J. Craig'a yard, Railway Wharf, to discharge.

The s.s. Diogadoe arrived from the South early this morning. Mr H. Watts, the purser, reports leaving Wellington at midnight on the 27th alto., Nopier let inst,, Gishorwe 2nd, called abTologa Bay.Awaura, Wai pore, Tokomara, Waipiro Bay, Tuparo«, Port Awauui, Te Araroa, and Whaagaparoe, left the latter place at 9.45 a.m. 4th, and arrived as staged. Experienced light variable winds and fine weather throughout.

America has 139 full-rigged Bailing ships afloat. The largest is the Rosnoke, 3,400 tons roaster, and the 8m&l!e«b is the whaling ship Eliza Adame, of New Bedford, which is but 388 tone reeistar. One other sbip regiettera less than 900 ton*—the Niger. 391 ton?, New Bedford whaler. Only 25 of the 139 hail from Pacific port?, while the remaining 114 on the Atlantic Coast all hail from ports north of Mason And Dixon's line. January lvb s 1893, the United States owned 205 full-rigged American chip". Since that) time two have been huilt and 68 have been lost, sold to foreigner*, or cub down into coal barges.— (Philadelphia " Maritime Journal.")