IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 557, 23 October 1871, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per 8.8. Napier, from Napier via tue uoasi: -25 horses, 150 sheep, A. Buckland.—J. S. Macfarlane, agent.

The .steamer Napier -will leave for Napier to-morrow evening. '. ' The schooner Clyde arrived from Wangarei this morning, with 24 head cattle, 3 tons gum,

and five passagera. , The 6.3. Keera left Napier on Wednesday last for Auckland via Tauranga. The s s. Napier arrived in harbour yesterday. She left NapUr on Sunday, and called at Wancawai and Turanganui, where she landed cargo! Shipped horse, at the latter phve^and left on Thursday. Experienced a strong in . W . gale crossing the Bay of Plenty and had to Inchov under Whale Island till Friday. Oallod at Tauranga, and left at 5 p.m. on Saturday, arriving at Kokimarama yesterday at 10 a.m. j Passengers—Messrs. Hall and Sweeney, from Napier ; Messrs. Samuels, Ball, Harrison, Mrs. Thorpe and child, from Tauranga. The p.s. Comerang arrived from Russell yesterday with the following passengers :— Saloon: Mrs. Colenso, Miss Wells, Miss; Morgan, Archdeacon C. B. Clarke, Messrs., Graham, McMath, Chad wick. Steerage :• three Maoris. Cargo : 2 tons gum, S, JJ Edmonds; 10 hides, 4 bundles skms, 35Sv sheep, 88 lambs, A. Buckland. # | The schooner Janet Ramsay left Napier for this port with 55 tons of potatoes on the 14th,-;

instant. The schooner Tawera was to leave Eoyertyl Bay for this port on Friday last. She wasj| "°W^ jvith a full cargo of wool for.tranship,** ARRIVAL OF TH^Bi^ LONDON. s>^a-^SSOM^ The fine barque Ballarat arrived in harbour yesterday afternoon, and having about eighty tons of powder on board, was brought up oil Hauraki Bay. The powder will probably be landed to-day, and to-morrow the vessel will come up and receive a berth at the wharf. The Ballarat has made several voyages to this port, and has always made good passages. On this occasion she is very deeply laden, nevertheless she has accomplished the run in 97 days from land to land, and 105 from G-raves-end. She brings a heavy cargo of general merchandise, and about 20 passengers. No sickness occurred during the voyage. After discharging her cargo the Ballarat proceeds to Napier, to load for England. The i3allarat is now in command of Capt. Reynolds, Capt. Allen, who was for many years master and part owner, having taken command of a large steamer. Capt. Reynolds will be remembered by many of our readers us chief officer of the Countess of Kintore. under Capt. Petherbridge. We are glad to congratulate him upon Ma promotion, and success in life at so early an age. His first voyag* in charge of a vessel to New Zealand will, we hope, only be the forerunner of many subsequent ones, and we have no doubt from our own knowledge, and from what we can gather, that Capt. Reynolds will be a very popular commander with passengers, crews, and shippers. The Ballarat left Gravesend on the 9th July, and landed the pilot off Dartmouth on the lith July, and was off tho Ushant on the 14th. Had moderate N.B. tra ie 3, and crossed the Equator on the 12th August, in 26° 30' W. Experienced strong I.E. trades, and passed the meridian of the Cape on the 12th Sept., in 45 °S. latitude, and 25 °E. longitude. Spoke a small fore-and-ait schooner, the Charleß Colgate, laud sealing. In 44 °S., fr3°E., experienced a cyclone, commencing at S.E., and blowing hardest at N.W. and W.S.W., the vessel "scudding for ten hours under lower topsails and foresail ; the barometer standing at 28.89, oscillating a tenth each way. This was followed by a very heavy sea, which broke up the long boat, poop ladders, &c, the passengers and all hands being engaged bailing- and pumping. The cyclone appeared to pass to the southward. From 80 °E. to 144 °, carried steady northerly winds, making an average of 230 miles daily for twelve days. Passed Cape Otway on the 10th October, and sighted the Three Kings at daylight on the'l9th, being the first land sinfe leaving Portland. Had head winds down the coast, and arrived'in harbour at 1 p.m. yesterday. Passengers : — George Callwell, Alfred Carter, Martha E. Chandler, Hannah Sampson, Henry Berry, John E. Doris, Harriet JDoris, John Brown, Patrick Kelly, Q-eorge and Mrs. Chow, John R. Carr, John and Gteorge Rees, Patrick Mulhamby,.,, Q-eorge Postlethwaite, William Moore, Cornelia and Mary Daley.