THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11987, 9 June 1902, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

* The mail steamer Ventura, with the English mails which left London on May 10. is due at Auckland to-morrow. The steamer brings a large general cargo for this port, on discharge of which she proceeds on to Sydney. _ The mail steamer Sonoma arrived from Sydney shortly before six o'clock on Saturday morning, and anchored in the stream. Dr. E. W. Sharman. the port health offi-er, visited the steamer in the morning, and fter the usual inspection the passengers, none of whom were for Auckland, were admitted to pratique, and the majority came on shore on a short visit. In the meantime the work of transhipping cargo and coal was carried on from the hulks, and shortly after one o'clock the work was completed. The first of the mails and passengers' luggage from Auckland was sent off in a ferry steamer about one o'clock, and the balance left shortly before two o'clock, a large crowd assembling on Quay-street Jetty No. 3 to wish their friends proceeding by the Sow'La farewell. The list of passengers, both 'rum Australia and New Zealand, is a fairly fu'l one for this time of the year, numbering about 160 in all classes, and this number will be further augmented at the Samoan pot. Shortly before three o'clock the last of the mails were transferred to the Sonoma, and the steamer was soon uuderweigh for her voyage across the Pacific. The cargo from Australia included large lines of skins, hardwood timber, tin, cocoanut oil, etc., and from this port, pelts, flax, potatoes, beef, vanilla, etc.