IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 247, 25 October 1897, Page 4

IMPORTS.

! Per Flora, from Fiji, 9,458_ bunches I bananas, -lOOcwts fruit and sundries. ! Per Mararoa, from the South : 2i_coal ! baskets, 30 donkey bar*?, 275 case, wins*-*:}-, !20 octaves whisky, 21 £ -casks whisky, 70 : tins lead, 50 cascs'starch, 17 hales bags and ! paper, 510 packages flour, 22 hhds beer, ■ ! 10 barrels beer, __:_"!. oxes glass, 28 packages Tames, etc., 25 sacks oatmeal, 2(17 saci.s j i Via. lev, 461 bags ..otatccs, 300 sacks wheat, j 1 I,loß' sacks ehaiiC-13 sacks seed, 20 bales j hay, 084 cases', salmon, 30 roll:, paper, lo . packages samples, 600 package.*, sundries, j Per Waihora. from Sydney * 409 cases , fruit, SCO half-cases currants, 472 packages ; ' tea. 735 bags rice. 122 bags pepper, 29 bags tapioca. 300 bags salt, 40 bags hemp, 12 i bales kaook, 37 cases curios. 524 packages : merchandise, 20 cases glucose, 9SO pieces 1 timber, 9*27 bags bones, 200 bags bonedust, 254 bay;?, bark, 236 bars iron, 20 sheets steel, 200 tubes, 00 ingots tin, 26 ingots copper, 45 reck- lead, 42 cases galvanised iron, 35 cases grease, 52 cases jam, 20 cases • sardines, 22 bundles blind;., 24 casks spirits, j 17 casks cognac, 35 cases meats, 120 boxes j soap, 33 packages sewing machines, and j 430 packages sundries. ; . .-I The s.s. Poherua left for Westport on j Saturday evening to load coal for Fiji. j Tiie barque:; Ca-.abiau-.-a, Aurilo. and j Tartu, and the ship Sterling have been i chartered to load wool at New Zealand for j London. ' To-tlay at tiie Harbour Board Cilices the j leases of offices on the Devonport Perry * jetty, Northcote Ferry jetty ami Victoria wharf, Devonport, were sold by Messrs (... W. Binney and Sons for a term of three years. The leasehold*, were bought by the Devonport Ferry Co, at the upset price of £104, £20, and £15 per annum.

The auxiliary schooner Aotea arrived yesterday, morning from Gisborne and East Coast ports with a cargo of general produce. She left Gisborne on the 12th inst., and called at Tologa Bay, Awarua, Tokomaru, Waipiro, and Tuparoa. The vessel was detained for three days at Port Awanui by a westerly gale. The East Cape was rounded on the 20th, and the Aotea called at Hicks Bay. Kawakawa, liaukokore, Te Kaha, and Omio. (.ape Colville was rounded on the 23rd, and the vessel arrived as above.