IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1898, Page 4

IMPORTS.

' Per Pukaki, from Westport—l6oß tons

coal,

i Per Kia Ora. from East Coast—6s sacks Wheat, 153 sacks bones, 300 sacks manure 40 sacks pumpkins, 1 horse, 20 cheeses, 20 boxes soap. 62 sacks fungus, and a ' quantity of sundries.

Per Mararoa, from Sydney—so cases wine, 6 cases brandy, 760 cases fruit, 108 bags salt, 200 cases naphtha, 869 cases benzine, 89 sacks wheat, 45 bags ginger, 73 reels lead rod, 50 boxes elemes, 90 boxes tin plates, 78 bales peanuts, 45 packages iron, 100 bales palings, 35 packages tubes, 100 sacks flour, 200 50' s flour. 1200 bags rice, 54 • bales lucerne hay, 100 ballots 'fibre,' 164 bags bottles, 525 baga coke; ' 5 cases glycerine, 10 cases plated ware, 632 bags bones, and 986 packages .sundries.

Per Waihora, from the South—37 bales paper, 63 cases meats, etc., 10 ranges, 3-cases 30 hhds and cases stout and ale, boxes candles, 9 cases hams and bacon 23 sacks walnuts, 148 packages flour, ' 272 packages ' iron, 13 bundles copper boilers, 30 sacks oatmeal, 1293 sacks . wheat, 53 packages paint, 23 packages oil, 52 packages furniture, 26 kegs soda,----147 plates iron, 10 cases cheese, and a quantity of transhipments ex Corryf vrechan and Ruahine.

'The schooner Aotea leaves for coast ports and Gisborne to-morrow evening.

The barquentine Neptune left Adelaide on the 9th inst., for Edithburg, to load salt for this port.

Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., the local agents, have been advised that •the; s.s. Maori left England on July 9, for J Wellington and Lyttelton. Cargo for Auckland will be transhipped at Wellington.

The.barque Ganymede, from the Bluff to this p6rt, was passed off Port Awanul on Saturday by the s.s. Waihora.

H.M.S. Royal Arthur left Sydney on Wednesday- last for ■■ Brisbane. • She anchored in Moreton Bay and was ten.dered by the. Karakatta. The Flagship will return to Sydney on Monday next,

The steamer Gertie, now due at Newcastle from Capetown, to load coal for New Zealand, has been purchased by a Wanganui firm, and will trade out of that port. She loads coal at Newcastle for AVanganui direct.

The Tyser steamer Indraghiri, which ar rived at Melbourne from London yesterday, proceeds to Sydney and then comes on tothis port, where she is due about August 2, Messrs Heather, Roberton, and Co. are the localagents for the vessel.

The s.s. Kia Ora, Captain Shaw, from Napier, Gisborne, and East Coast Bays, arrived at i p.m. to-day. At Crete Point a heavy S.W. gale accompanied by heavy sea sprang up, which necessitated the steamer putting back to Hick's Bay on 16th. She left Hick's Bay at 8 a.m. on 17th, and experienced strong westerly winds and high running sea till arrival off Alderman Islands. Thence moderate weather and calm sea to arrival.