AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3407, 22 November 1879, Page 1

AUCKLAND.

.. £ut light. Sailed: George Noble, schooner, for Newcastle. . , -- The business during the week hat been on an extensive scale, and merchant! report higher ralaesapon goods in stock. The tariff meets with general approbation although buyers are disinclined to operate at new rates. Stocks hare been cleared of galvanised iron at £26 to £27; fencing wire; assorted, at £15 to £15 10s per ton. Tobacco offering at old'prices, Venus lO'i Is 3d to Is 4d. Hennessy's brandy quitted at 35s 6d to 36s per ease, but an advance to 37s 6d is announced, and lla 3d to lls 3d tor bulk. Kerosene is a shade higher, Star and Devoe'e, in trade parcels, giving Is 3d and Is 2d. Currants are moving freely at 5d to s§d. Sugarwhite crushed loaf, £46; Fijian, brown yellows just arrived, and an advance of £2 to £3 is required. Maize (Fijian)—A cargo sold this morning at 4s Id; Sydney, 43 2d to4a<3d. Albert Olilsou, for attempting to black mail Samuel Cooinber by demanding by letter certain money on pain of certain exposure, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. A man named Andrew Tahey, a stowaway ou board the Pengain from Wellington to Auckland, was fined £5 or two months' imprisonment. The case of alleged forgery against Oliver Macey Quintal lasted all day, and was adjourned. V At the Artists' Exhibition is a watercolour picture by a Waikato Maori, Te lieti JN Tgataki. It is a sketch of a Spanish lady playing the guitar, and is not devoid of talent. Ac the Wesleyan district meeting toI day, Caughey and Wills, candidates for the Ministry were examined. The following ecclesiastical statistics of the district were read:— Churches 39; other . preaching places 62; ministers and pro* butiouers 19; Sunday school scholars 2,536; attendance on public worship 6134; Maoii churches 8; other preaching places 36; Sunday schools 17; ministers and church members 388; attendance on public worship 2,363. The Cambridge Cavalry .Races and Jockey Club Spring Meeting passed off successfully. Thomas Sheehau, younger brother of the late Native Minister, recently returned from Wellington, died of congestion t>f the lungs.