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THE KO-fATA, On Tuesday next the Union Co.'s steamer Komata will arrive here with a cargo of coal loaded at Westport. She left that port on Saturday last. THE ARiAHURA. In view of t_ e labour trouble, the Union Company's steamer Arahura did not sail as usual for the East Coast on Saturday, and she was then listed as "indefinitely postponed." On in-iH-irv at the local offlee this morning, it was learned that she was still held back. ana that no advice _ad come to _and In reference to her departure. PORT OF NEWCASTLE. A letter received in Auckland by the Sydney mail contains interesting details of conditions at the great coaling port of Newcastle. Few ships are requiring bunkering coal, and there is a generally quiet air about the port. The once exceptionally busy atmosphere of Newcastle has suffered a big change during the past few months, and in the words of one of the shipping masters there, "There is nothing doing." Among the ships which are awaiting loading there is the fine ship Golden Gate, which was here recently. The coal which she lifts at Newcastle Is for San Francisco. HUDDART-PARKER CO. The arrangements or the HuddartParker Co. for the Sydney and Southern services have been seriously disorganised by the labour trouble, and the Victoria, which should now be in port here and ready to sail for Sydney, has been detained in Wellington. Her departure for the Australian port —as therefore been Impossible. so that the We_tralla has been diverted, and will leave here on Wednesday for Sydney in place of the Victoria. The Westralia arrived here from the Australian port this morning, and she was, in the event of the ships fulfilling time-table ■obligations, to have sailed to-morrow for Southern ports. PASSENGERS FOR WBANGAREiI. The _la=aia sails for Whang—rd at 10 o'clock to-night wibh the following passengers: Misses Wdchenson, Horreil. Mcr>onald, SHew—rd. -Herrleo—. SSardwiek. Situddock, Andrews, Garraway. 3_e—dames En-ansgroves, Wells, Harrison. Kay. McMillan. Andrews, Messrs. Bach. Gllmour, Stewart, Mnllett, ißond, Christian, Bransgroves. "Wells. Williams, Captain Smith, Andrews Liddell, sMpMIHan, Murhoßand, Messrs. Smedley. White, Emsns. Levatt, Beasley. May. Blnnd—U. Kay. Tattersall. Mclntosih Batbgate, Co-head. SergeantMajor Fletcher, and 35 steerage. WESTRALIA, FROM SYDNET. The Huddart-Parker's steamer Westralia arrived at Auckland early this morning from Sydney, and berthed at the Queen's wharf to allow passengers to disembark. Except during the early part of the vcyasee. which was made with heavy winds, the trip lacked incident. The Westralia (brought 1,175 tons of cargo for Auckland, including transhipments ex Wodonga, Indiana, Osterley. Anstralien, Kashgar, Kenkon Mam, Matsura Maru, Changsha,! Katoomba, Gogsvall. Aramac, Wyandra, Mallina, Clan McCorqudale, Goulburn, and Eastern. FORT OF ONEHTJNCA. ARRIVALS. YESTERDAY. RIMU, 8-s., 412 tons, A. Parris, from Hokianga.—Northern Co., agents. ARAPAWA, s.s., 291 tons, E. Keatley, from Waitara and Kawhia.—Northern Co., agents. THIS DAY. REGCLUS, s.s.. 584 tons, H. L. Ticker.! man, from Nelson.—Russell and Somers, agents. DEPARTURES. THIS DAY. RARAWA, 6.5., 1572 tons, for New Plymouth. RIMU, s.s., 412 tons, for Raglan and Kawhia. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. Car* Maria van Dlemen, February _L— The steamer Kaitangata passed south at 12.30 p.m. East Cape, February. 10.—The steamer | Kabu passed north at 10.25 p.m. Hokianga Heads.—Arrived, yesterday: Melbourne. s.s.,from Akaroa. Port Nelson, February IL—To rail at 11 p.m.: Begulus. s.s., for Onehunga. - Westport, February 11.—Sailed at 3 a.m.: Komata, s.s., for Auckland. OVERSEA SHIPPING. Sydney, February 12.—Sailed: Rakanoa, e.s., for Anckland. Newcastle, February 12: Sailed: Ihumata, for Auckland; Kaiapoi, for Bluff.

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