IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 217, 19 September 1870, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per s.s. Rangatira : Transhipped at Wellington ex Tararua—l box, Clark and Son ; 1 case, Geobo. Ex Gothenburg—3o cases jams, Cruickshank, Smart and Co. Free goods—63 cases, Combes and Daldy. From Wanganui —1 case Anderson and Gnrlick ; 19 packages bacon, L. W. Eaton. From Taranaki—92 sheep, A. Buckland ; 1 horse, Sir G. Arney. —Combes and Daldy, agents. Per p.s. Samson, from Poverty Bay :—7OO sheep, A. Dornwell.—W. Thome, agent. Per p.s. Charles Edward, from Wanganui :—1 trunk, Stebbing ; 40 head caltle, 2 calves, 120 sheep, Di.k and Seaton. — Cruicksbank, Smart and Co., agents. Per brig Moa, from Tahiti : -71 bales of cotton, 98 tons cotton seed, 3 bales wool, Owen and Graham. —J. S. Macfarlane, agents. Per schooner Onehunga, from Napier : —74 bales wool, 90 bales flax, 50 casks oil, 13 packages preserved fruit. —Brown, Campbell and Co., agents.

The s.s. Rangatira will leave the Manukau at 3 p.m. to-morrow, for Wanganui and Southern ports. The s.s. Phcebe left the Manukau for Southern ports this afternoon. The cargo of the brig Moa, from Tahiti, will be transhipped into the Argyleshire, for London.

The p.s. Charles Edward will leave the Manukau to-morrow, at 3 p.m., for Wan-

ganui. The schooner Colonist sailed from Poverty Bay on Friday for Open Bay and other places on the coa3t. We learn that H.M.S.S. Blanche arrived at Taranaki on Saturday, with a large number of the Armed Constabulary. Tht p.s. Samson returned from the East Coast yesterday morning, bringing a cargo of fat sheep in fine condition for Mr. Dornwell. The s.s. Rangatira, Captain F. Reuner, arrived in the Manukau yesterday, from Southern ports, bringing a general cargo and several passengers. She left Wellington at 5 p.m. on the 14th ; arrived off Wanganui bar at 8 a.m. on the 15lh, and at the wharf at 1 p.m. the same day ; left again at 1 p.m. on the 6_h, and arrived' off Taranaki at 3 a.m. on the 17th ; left again at 5 p.m. the same clay, and crossed the Manukau bar at 8 a.m. on the 18th, and arrived at Onehunga wharf at 10.15 a.m. the same day. Had light easterly winds and fine weather, with smooth water, throughout. Passengers —Cabin: Messrs.McLaughlin, Lewis, Smith, Ewins. Steerage: Messrs. Slator, Henderson, Bredin, Bryce. The p.s. Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, arrived in the Manukau yesterday from the West Coast and Wanganui. Passengers —Mrs Clark and child, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Morgan, Messrs. Harley, Seaton, Rimmer, Gilmer, Schaffer, Gaunt, and Green. We are indebted to Mr. A. W. Bennett for late Southern files.

We understand that the fine ship Sydenham will take her departure during the present week for China. The brig Moa, Captain Robertson, arrived in harbour yesterday morning, after a very good passage of twenty days, bringing a cargo of cotton and cotton seed for transhipment to England. The Moa left Tahiti on the 28th ultimo, and experienced fine weather and easterly witids throughout the voyage. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Grange and child, Miss McKay, Messrs. McGinn and Montgomery. The schooner Onehunga, Captain Walker, arrived in harbour yesterday, from Napier, aftr a good pas-age, bringing a cargo of oil, flax, and wool, for transhipment to England by the ship Argyleshirc. The schooner Queen arrived at Napier on Wednesday last. The schooner Saucy Lass left Napier for Lyttleton on Tuesday last. The schooner Meteor, hence, arrived at Poverty Bay on Friday. A story, reminding us of Eobinson Crusoe and other heroes of ocean adventures, has lately startled even this sensation-sated generation. Six sailors, being part of the crew of an iron clipper ship, Mercurius, which had visited Sydney and San Francisco, and was on her return voyage to England, have just reached Liverpool, and told a wondrous tale of suffering, privation, resource, and heroism. The ship struck on a coral reef in latitude 3 deg. 52 mm. S., longitude 33 deg. 20 mm. W., and almost instantly went down. Of twenty-two men on board only six saved themselves, by swimming about for two hours till the tide fell and they were able to get a footing on the sterile waste. Here, befriended by a few scattered relics of former wrecks, they contrived to exist, amid horrors unspeakable, fifty-one dreadful days when they attracted the attention of a passing vessel, were rescued, and brought to Liverpool.