AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3170, 17 April 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Passengers for the South per s.s. Wellington. New Plymouth:—Mr and Mrs McNottand four children, Misses Kelly and Sharland, Messrs Morgan, J. Brown, E. B. Frazer, Owen, Eobertson, and Rev. Blundell. For Wellington : Messrs Crawford and Wilkie. For Lyttelton: Mrs J. W. Owen. For Port Chalmers: Mr J. Gibb, and for the Bluff Mr and Mrs Coloyer ? Arrival of the s.s. Roto.ua. The Kotorua arrived at Bussell from Sydney at six o'clock. Passengers—for Poverty Bay—Mr Gray; for NapierMr Alderich; for Bluff—Mr Mitchell. Alfred. Buckland held a sheep fair at Drury yesterday, there being a steady demand for grown stock suitable for grazing. The prices were five per cent higher than last month's auction, except for dairy cattle, which was relatively dullBuckland's weekly report quotes oats 3s 9d to 3s lOd, maize 4s, barley 3s 6d. Horse stock in smaller numbers and of an inferior class.

Binney and Mason report the holidays slightly interfered with the business. Quotations: Adelaide flour, £13 10s to £14; Southern, £10 to £11; wheat, 5s to 4s 3d ; fowl wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; bran and pollard, 6s; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 9d; maize, 4s to 4s 3d ; oatmeal £19 to £20; bams and bacon in cloth, B|d to Bfd; ditto bare, 7d to 7|d; cheese, B^d to 8f d; batter Is to Is Id.