IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 246, 23 October 1897, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Upolu, from Tahiti and Cook Group: 848 sacks copra, 2,146 cases and boxes oranges, 312 sacks coffee, 104 sacks socoanuts, 127 cases pines, 31 cases vanilla, 13 cases mother of pearl shells, 100 kits bananas and sundries.

The s.s. Waihora arrives from Sydney on Monday morning.

This evening the Poherua will leave for Westport to load coal for Fiji. The barquentine Silver Cloud will be docked on Monday for cleaning ami painting.

The s.s. Mararoa left Gisborne at II o'clock this morning, and is due here at 9 a.m. to-morrow.

The three-masted schooner Ysabel, Captain "Win. Ross, is daily expected to arrive from the Phcenix Group and the Friendly Islands.

The s.s. Takapuna is due at Onelmnga at 8 a.m. to-morrow. A special train will leave town at 7.15 a.m., returning at 8.15 with her passengers. The barque Castle Blanca leaves Dunedin for, Auckland with a cargo of produce on Friday next, and on discharge she loads ■wool, gum, etc., for London.

The barquentine Jasper is now taking in provision and ballast for Lady Elliott Jsland. She will sail early next week to load guano for New Zealand ports.

The "barque Onyx is now twenty-four days out from Dunedin to this port with a cargo of produce. She was probably blown off the coast by the westerly wind's which ■were experienced about a fortnight ago. The K. M.s. Goldfinch returned from Ruseell early this morning after an absence of three days. She left Auckland on Wednesday morning and arrived at the Bay of Islands on Thursday. Yesterday afternoon she left for Auckland, arriving as above after a smooth passage.