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Grey River Argus, Issue 80, 17 July 1866, Page 3

Sale of Flax in Auckland.:— The "Weekly News," of the 30th Jung, says : — " In our commercial items we note the ■ pale of a large parcel of Now Zealand flax, prepared by Messrs Purchfts and NinnesV process^ at £37 per ton. Mr "^oolley was the buyer. Maori hand-dressed flax sold for £30 per ton. Although these prices do not fix with geptajnty the market .'value of .fla3t r feei^g r that they were bought to execute an order— at the same time they give assurance to persons engaged in its preparation that there is a ready sale arid gdocV prices to be had jn Auckland' "Mr Neil Lloyd bid £24, for local manufacturing purposes." Native Intelligence.— The, " Cross," ■?■'■ of the 26th pit., says :— Wje are. indebted ts"£a gentleman who arrived yesterday' _13|krnoon by the s.s. Star of the South, for the following intelligence of native affairs on the East Coast :— The long promised native meeting at Tauranga, for the purpose . of settling the, .question of the ■Katikati boundaries, &c, was to take pliice yesterday: • Mr Mackay • and Mr : Clarke had brpught a numlier-.Qf native plaimants from Katikati to Taiiranga. No arms were to be allowed to be brought to Tauranga by any of the natives. The Jetter received by ihe surveyors, purporting to, conic; :f?pnir Wiljiain Thompson'sson, and warning them to dweoatwue operations^ was b^Jieyed in Tauranga not tohave.emanatedy^ ; •and it was thought the surveyors had been ; J; somewhat, needlessly' alarmed: It was hoped that some ayrangepjept woujd be made, through Mackay, foy the smyveyp to be recommenced. Thearch-j»bei : Kereopa, with Patara and. a, ["band of spjpe ; thirty or ; / forty nien', ar-e^^ reported to have passed I through Taup.o on iliqipihinst. Ker^pa *■ was stated to "he making -for the Upper t. Waikato, but had subsequently changed, his views; rand startedf or- the north 'side /of thV^toy-ua lake., his birthplace, where ireporied to "he; encamped on the night df"'tiie.-:2las>^t/-i,.;-.3n^'iiifc^atipn