AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3220, 14 June 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Exodus of Waikato Natives.

Smallpox at Fiji.

, The Mayor has received an application from the (Colonial Secretary of Fiji for a supply of vaccine lymph, the coolie ship Leonidas with smallpox having' arrived at Levuka from India. The request will be complied with.

The Government, intend tovybuild a good house for Eewi at Eihikihi township,

and a school for the education of native children.

All the disaffected natives on the Waikato frontier have cleared out for Taranaki.

Preparations for the Guberna-

torial Reception. Final preparations for the reception of the GoVernor have been made to-day. The Governor and suite will land at Onehunga at ten o'clock on Monday, will be received, by Native Minister,,, and Judge Gillies, and an address presented ;by;'the Onehunga Borough, Council. He drives thence by way of Epsom through the triumphal arch at.Newmarket, and makes a short halt while a bouquet is prosented by the children to Lady .Robinson;' then through Parnell and by the. Beach Road to the foot of Queen street, where there is another triumphal arch and raised dais, and an address will be presented by the City. Here the Corporation, Volunteers and Friendly Societies will be assembled. After this ceremony the procession will pass up Queen street by Wellesley street East to the Government House ; here two thousand children will sing the National anthem, and the ladies assembled on the balcony Will present a magnificent bouquet.

Captain Carey, of the steamer Eotorua was.s fined: £25, and :costs 43sji ,«.at ttie; Police Court today/ for a breach o£. the; Post Offico Act in not taking proper care of the mail between Napier and Auckland. Carey pleaded guilty. The Crown 1 Prosecutor said he was instructed by the Postmaster General to press for a high penalty as the Union Company had shewn great neglect in providing proper accommodation for the mails.

Mr Binney quotes: Canterbury flour,^ £11; Adelaide, £12 10s to £13; oats, 2s Bd, 2s 9d,'and 3s; oatmeal, £17 per ton ; barley, 2s 6d; bacon and bams, in cloth, ninopenco to ninepenco-half-penny, bare, eightponce; Canterbury cheeße, good, eightpence to eightpence-halfpenny; maize, 4s; Canterbury potatoes, £6, local, £5 10s.