IMPOSTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1902, Page 4

IMPOSTS.

Per La Bella, from Xliuaru: 4500 sacks produce. Per Mararoa, from the South: 1665 sacks oats, suO bags flour, 519 sacks grass seed, 365 cases preserves, 83 boxes sultanas, 39 barrels ale, 67 packages Orion ranges, 90 packages pipes, 88 cases wax vestas, 39 boxes butter, 94 sacks barley, 60 cases soap, 26 sacks oatmeal, 600 sacks bran, and a large quantity of sundress.

Per Warrimoo, from Sydney: 280 bales kapok, 24 bales millet, 141 packages tea, 2759 bags asphalt, 13 cases tobacco, 75 boxes tin plates, 80 cases and sacks empty bottles, 500 bags salt, 5 crates tiles, 100 sacks manure, 13 packages pith, 20 cases, 9 barrels oil, 45 ingots tin, 656 felloes, 121 pairs shafts, 899 rough spokes, 54 'bus poles, 685 pieces timber, a quantity of sundries and transhipments for Tahiti.

The s.s. Elingamite arrived at Sydney at 2 o'clock on Saturday morning last.

The survivors of the brigantine Prosperity, which struck Stradbrooke Island, tell a thrilling story. The disaster occurred at 1 a,m., and the men clung to the rigging till S o'clock, and then got ashore, naked. The captain had gone off watch at midnight on Thursday, and a seaman named Helenuis took the wheel. Helenuis saw land a few moments before the vessel struck. A stiff wind was blowing, and a heavy sea swept tne boat away. The mate went into the cabin, and it was immediately washed away, and he wiua it. The vessel commenced to settle down by the stern, and seas broke over. The main boom, gaff, mainsail, and foremast were in turn carried away. The men were thrown into the water. Those who got ashore safe.y were:—Captain Peter John Peterson; Seamen T. M'Donnell, John Nissen, Chas. Helenuis, J. A. M'Farlane. The mate and cook were drowned, but strangely enough, their names are unknown.