Auckland Markets.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3451, 16 January 1880, Page 2

Auckland Markets.

Mr Binney reports :—Adeliade flour £15, to £15 10s; Canterbury, £13; oatmeal, £15 ; pearl barley, 24s ; oats, 2s 9^ to 3s;'maize, good, 4s; Canterbury cheese, 7d, local, 5d to 6d ; salt butter, market full, 6J to 7d ; hams and beacon, 9d to lOd; potatoes, local, £4 to £4 10s per ton. The market is well stocked, butbut sales are slow. Yesterday. The sunken rock and the Rotomahana, j On the return of the s.s. Kotomahtfta to this port, an enquiry is to be held by the ft.M. into the accident which occurred to her off the Great Barrier Island. At the sitting of the Supreme Court in banco, a peculiar case was mentioned, namely, Prince v. Kerr, a suit commenced in the first instance to recover a gambling debt. The plaintiff was described as a " gentleman of the turf," and defendant as " the icion of a Scottish ducal house." The debt was on a promissory note for £200, won by the plaintiff at cards. The way in which the claim originated was rather peculiar. The writ was isstfed on the 28th May last, defendant appeared on the 13th June, declaration was filed on 15th June, aud the defendant pleaded on the 21st July. The action was brought upon the three months' bill made by the defendant, and he pleaded - first, that he received no valuable consideration for the bill; and, further, it represented a sum of money won from him at cards by plaintiff in the Nevada Hotel, Auckland. His Honor made an order that the action should be dismissed unless the next itep be taken within eight days. Mr D. McLetA, in a letter published in a local paper, states that a petition urging the Berlin Government to establish German supremacy by placing the Samoan King under German protection, is being hawked about for signatures by a captain of the New Zealand Militia, and is being signed here by many naturalized German citizens who have taken the oath proscribed by the Aliens Act, 1866. A rat wanted. Mr Hurst has been solicited to address his City West constituents on the pro* eeedings during the late session of Parliament.