AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3237, 4 July 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Commercial. «

' G. W. Binney quotes flour at £11. Some of the local mills tried to advance the price one pound, bat were unsuccessful, in the face of' the large stock of Southern brands. Pollard, £16; bran, £5 10s; oatmeal, £15; pearl barley, 28s; oats, 2s Bd. The market is likely to continue glutted. Some large arrivals of maize are to hand—4ooo bags fromtFiji, 1000 from Sydney, 2000 per mail steamer. .Good butter is in demand at • tenpence to a shilling per lb, cheese sevenpence, ( potatoes £5 10s, onions twopence; of hams and bacon the market is bare, eightpence halfpenny to ninepenoe.

Mr Buckland quotes fat cattle areraged 30s, though prices fell toward the close of the tale, shipbourne cattle 27s (Jd, sheep steady at two pence halfpenny. Intelligence has been received of the death of Major-General Baddeley, father-in-law of the late Judge Beckham. 'At the Police Court to-day. David Honity and Thomas Va|ighan were charged with a breach of the Municipal Police Act by being interested in a lottery for which they sold tickets. Sergt,. Major Mason, of the police, deposed to purchasing a ticket, for which he received a pipe as a prize. The exhibition con*, tisted of views of scenery. The witness admitted that, at the Lome Street Hall where he drew blanks, he laid no information. Constable Kelly corroborated the Sergeant's evidence; he drew a doll as a prize. The Magistrate said he could hot see how defendants were interested, as they gave a pipe worth Is 6d for a la. Evidently no blanks, and no competition. The case was dismissed* ■ '

Sailed: The Alastor for London with a cargo valued at thirty-seven thousand pounds. •..'■