AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2364, 29 October 1870, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(FROM OREVILLE’s EXPRESS.) Auckland, October 21. The boiler of Tookey’s claim burst to-day. it is remarked that a great number of boiler* have recently burst at the Thames, from causes little understood. The Hon. J. Vogel has received a numerou and influential deputation of electors of City East, Auckland, requesting him to become a candidate for the representation of that district in the next election for the General A ssembly. During the conversation, reference was made to the importance of obtaining a dock for Auckland. Mr Vogel consented to stand for the district About 150 persons have signed the requisition, and Mr Clarke, the candidate previously in the field, has retired. It is doubted whether Mr Gillies intends to contest the seat. Gold has been discovered in the deep shaft of the Caledonian Gold Mining Company. The Provincial Government proposes in its next session to- remove existing restrictions as to port charges, &c., so as to remove charges off mail boats calling here, A telegram received to-day states that Tookey’s tributors have obtained 36 ounces of gold from 25 tons of stone. The Hero brings some later Australian news. The Sydney Herald advocates the San Francisco steamers running to Fiji and Sydney, with a branch lino to Auckland. The Herald urges the New South Wales legislature to make this a nine t/u i non in voting the subsidy. It says New Zealand would be no worse served, and Wellington and Otago would receive their mails much earlier than as now. Mr Collie has gone to Brisbane to ascertain what amount of support tiie Queensland Government will give to Mr Webb’s line. ; Sydney advices received here state that the revelations made in connection with the insolvency of Thorpe and Walkerhave shaken confidence in commercial circles. - The liabilities are 1,105,264 ; assets, L 30.735. The schooner Lady Bird from Wellington has arrived at Sydney. Shipping : Arrived—Hero from Sydney, Airedale from South, Duke of Edinburgh from [Newcastle, Constance from Sydney,

Estella from Liverpool, Magellan from China Departures Kauri for Lcvuka, Flirt for Lyttelton, Sea Breeze for Rarotonga, Janet Dalgleish for Newcastle. Commercial.—Mr Binnejv auctioneer, sold wheat, good, 5s lld ; middling, 5s (51 ; inferior, 4s 4d ; oats, 3s 4d ; /lour, LI4 2s to Ll4 ss; barley, L 27 prr ton. The oats per Wave were withdrawn. Hassell’s Oamaru flour has been sold at LIS 14s fid per ton; Anderson Mowat’s, Ll4 15s. The Honolulu sugars were quitted at satisfactory prices. A letter from the Bishop of Leitchfield acknowledging the receipt of the very beautiful desk composed of New Zcalnn 1 woods sent from Auckland, has been received. Mr Blackett, Chief Engineer to the Board of Works is expected here shortly in connection with the railway surveys. It is stated in the Auckland papers that the natives in the interior have ceased to oppose the telegraph.