IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 259, 8 November 1897, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Mararoa,. from Sydney :—299 pieces timber, 10,000 spokes, 8 shafts 131 packages tea, 7 ■ cases plimsolls, 26 cases curios, 80 packages ginger, 9 cases marble, 10 slabs marble, 75 packages currants, 125 bars iron, 40 bundles iron, 6 quarter-casks whisky, 90 ingots tin, 75 bundles palings, 500 rails, 59 crates bottles, 10 kegs soda, 320 bags rice, 8 bundles galvanised tubes, 21 packages furniture, 20 lengths pipe, 48 boiler tubes, 36 cases wine, 335 bags salt, 9 cases books, 15 cases coffee essence, 50 boxes sultanas, 250 sash weights, 115 halfcases fruit, 250 bags sugar, 66 single tubes, 3 slabs slate,; I|OJ tons shale, 93 pairs naves, 104 grindstone 3 steel girders, 232 bags bones, 142 imgs bottles, 450 packages sundries and transhipments per Meninuir, Virawa, Australien, Ormuz, Oonah, Candia, Wodonga, Zambo, Eockton, Tsinan. Per Waihora, from the South: 1,919 sacks potatoes, 150 oats, 255 sacks flour, 280 sacks chaff, 80 sacks oatmeal, 1,500 bundles and bars iron, 161 tins lead, 50 drums oil, 50 cases jam, 50 cases whisky, 40 boxes soap, 24 crates biscuits, 777 sacks wheat, 40 boxes tea, 45 sashweights, and 100 tons transhipments ex Ben Nevis, Rimutaka, andi lonic.

The barque Silverhow has been chartered to load at Liverpool for New Zealand ports.

The barque Norna arrived at Port Chalmers from New York on Friday after a. passage of 115 days.

The barquentine Waitemata will go into dock to-morrow. While in dock she will be extensively overhauled and repaired, and her hull will be re-fastened.

The barque Excelsior finished the discharge of her cargo to-day and will leave at the end of the week for the Kaipara to load timber for Fr eemantle.