AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3482, 21 February 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night.

The steamer Rotomahaoa brought orer from Sydney 632 bales of wool and 52 tons o? zinc. These are for transhipment to New York by the barque Elmiranda, which is daily expected here from Wellington. At present there is no vessel loading in Sydney for New York, and the rates of freight are considerably higher in that port than here, so that, in the present instance it will pay the shipper to tranship it on to Auckland, as the Elmiranda is reported to hare been chartered on very favourable terms.

At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board, the Chairman announced the receipt of a letter from Mr J.W. Treadwell, Secretary of the Working Men's Association at Christchurch, reciting terms upon which they wished to take up land near Hamilton. One condition was that settlers with their families should be conveyed to the land free of oost f "and that they should be provided with work for some time.

Mr Tonks observed that the writer Jiad omitted a very essential condition, Viz., that .settlers should be provided with comfortable houses, and supplied with free rations for the first three years. Under terms like these, he would like to settle down himself.

Mr Treadwell's overtures were not accepted.

Mr Eichard Feltue fell off the Queen street wharf in the forenoon, and was helplessly drowning, when a young man named Evan Owens, a seaman on board the Penguin, jumped in and brought the exhausted man to the stringers of the wharf.

Captain Colbeck addresses the Marsden electors next week.

,Mr W. J. Hurst exhibits onions grown at his estate, Takapuna Lake, weighing 21b lOozs, and measuring 21|in in circumference.

An enquiry into the circumstances attending the striking of the schooner Sophia upon the Bull rock on January 28th on her voyage from Oamaru to Auckland, ended in the suspension of Captain Burthe's certificate for one month and to pay the coses of the enquiry, £11 ss. The enquiry was conducted before Mr Barstow, E.M., and Captain Frater, Nautical Assessor.

A fair business was done this week, caused by the loading up of several Island schooners, which are filling up with produce. Galvanised iron, outside trade, £26 10s ; fencing wire, assorted numbers, £15; pig iron, &c, late arrivals, £4 7s 6d; candles, De Koubaix, 9|d; grass seeds dull, East Coast rye as low as 3s to 3s 6d; cocksfoot, first parcel just in sold at 5s 6d; flour offering at low,rates, Southern, £12 to £13; Adelaide, £14 5s to £1410s; oats, 100 bags Southern sold by auction at Is 8d to Is 9d; Fijian maize, tlast cargo quoted at 2s 5d to 2« 6d ; potatoes, crop, averages 10 tons per acre, offered : at £3; gum is still low, ordinary,'£4o; flax is in demand, best quality £21.