LATEST FROM AUCKLAND

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 February 1884, Page 3

LATEST FROM AUCKLAND

Auckland, Last Night. Sharemarket : Taupiri coal, 18s ; Eeuben Parr, 2s 3d, 2s 4d ; New Manukau, 5s 3d, 4s 6d ; sellers, 4s 2d ; Imperials, buyers, 15s 66. ; Colonist, buyers, 4s 3d. At Board of Education a statement submitted showed votes from Building grant already exceeded by £2638, recommended obtain overdraft for £6000 on security of nine years. Grant discussson postponed. A letter was read to-day from father of Parr, a pupil of Waiokniaka School, in respect of whoso scholarship a mistake \yiw made liy the Bo:irtl. Purr, who is a i'nrmer at Waitoa, demands revision of the papers. O'iJnnoghuo, te ichor of the school, admitted he had written letter Kignel by tho boy P.ur, which uas forwarded to the Board, He re.id a Jong statement, in his own vindication general ly. A lony rli^'-ussion i-mtu'd, manifesting a general disposition to proceed no further with the mntte.i.

Thanks, Lost nig-lit. Isadora Campbell, the illegitimate child •)i ;i youn<? woman sit present «t To Aroh i, 'v»is toiuul drowned this afternoon in a well on Golden (Jalf Spur, whither she Ijjkl gone to fetch water. Kurunui Mill. — Jaine^, tributer, crushed nine tons of quartz fur the .splendid ieturn of 57ozs -klwts oi g % old.