AUKCLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3425, 13 December 1879, Page 2

AUKCLAND.

*•"•"■■ ■ ■■■""■■ Last night. The Colonist sailed for Chatham Islands.

The Rotorua has left for the South. Passengers for, Napier — Mrs Watts, Close (senr).' For Wellington—Messrs Gr»ham, Reid, Ross, James, Ransfield, and Lydia (native). For Lyttelton—Miss Hewling, Messrs Watson, S coy the, Burgess, Kayner and wife, Greenith, Patterson, William and James Niren, Mr and Miss Harper. For Dunedin —Mrs Hogg, Greathead, Cureton and Hussey. For Melbourne —Miss Thomson, Whitehall and Hussey. Trade Report.

Business this week has been rather, qniet, the only lines in request being sound dried fruits at enhanced values. Cement: A line of 650 casks, K. B. and S., has been sold for the South at about 14s. Stocks moderate. Breadstuffs : Hearily stocked, and if anything ruling lower, as bakers are full up. Adelaide wheat is placed at 14s to 10s, and 15s. Oats are dull, 500 sacks from Dunedin were quitted by auction from 2s 3d up to 2s 6d; market glutted. Maize it easier ; Sydney 3a 9d to 3s lOd, East Coast 3s 7d to 3s 9d, California 4s to 4s Id. Bacon and Hams : The stock is bare, but a good line arrires to day, and if sound should fetch lOd to 10Jd. Butter • Fresh, 8d to lOd. Kauri gum is still advancing; ordinary q«ality realised £65 feo-day for a large parcel, the highest price ever known for the quality. A movement is on foot among manufacturers to represent to Parliament that great injury will be inflicted on the industries of the country by the application of the Property Tax to machinery. For the district and open scholarships, there are 113 competitors from the public schools, principally for the former. The challenge issued by the Dunedin Artillery re carbine match, to the Auckland Battery hat been accepted. At the meeting of the Education Board the Chairman, James McCosh Clark, reported the result of his mission to Wellington, and stated that the Government promised to consider Auckland's claims fairly in the allocation of the £50,000 vote for education,purposes.