LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 95, 28 March 1885, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent.

Auckland, Friday. Since last Friday fresh better Nas become very plentiful, and consequently declined in value to 10 i per lb wholesale, and 19 retail ; ejjgs, remain at previous quotations. Local flour lias declined 10s per ton all round ; Southern flour has been reduced 5s per ton, and is now obtainable $t from. £<5 10s to £9 ; oats, have reduced 2d per bushel in wholesale market, and now wor.th 2s 4d to 2s 7d. Two thousand Oale lonian Deep Level shares were auctioned to-day, and fetched threepence per share. The hearing of the application by the Crown Prosecutor in the case of Clarke) Te Aroha, bankrupt' was resumed today beforo Judge Gillies. James Tait ♦Jerram,. aqcouiitant, deposed to. 'making anjnspection of debtor's house.!,, Some of the goods now. produced (clothing :ind.groceries)'sim'ght have -been in the .louse at the time he nude inspection. Hedepps&i to afterwards.searcbing the |ioir>e rti)dvfinding ( the articles. '„ The ease w^s .ultimately dismisdieii ,ou technieul ground* ..".•,

At a stole (if teaWb.pf city proper6|t?3 in K.jiraniraha|)o Road, to-iliiy, «*xt.fe-__' ordinary prices wer^' realised,, ;rangjtfg { " from £3 lOs\ to £7 por fool .yearly,. Leases sold 25 years ago for £200 a year, to-day reaiipod £1700, being equal fifth rates to £2000 a ye»n\ Buckland reports, Thursday : For dairy cattle, the bidding was dull. Store cattle, also in less request. Fat cattle, yarded infi?H numbers, but unproved^ values lnst week sustained. Prices ranged from 20s to 22s per lOOlbs for good steers. No .store,, sheep yarded. Fat sheep in usual number, and maintained values; one pen of wethers reached 18s ; several sold at and above x6a leach ; pigs, in good demand.