AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3487, 27 February 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night

The remainder of the passengers by the British Empire at the quarantine station will be released on Monday.

M. Villeval, Communist, writes to the local papers stating that the Communists by the schooner Griffin are preparing a brochure in reply to the calumnies which have been circulated about them by the Press, and by private persons. Sailed: The Fernglen for London with a cargo of wool, gum. copra, etc., valued at £37,000.

The Union Company's steamer Te Anau has left for Melbourne, via the East Coast and Southern ports! Passengers : For Gisborne—W. W. Cardno, Mr Bunkail. For ISapier—Miss M. Haslett, Mrs Nicholls, and J. B-. Williams. For Wellington—Mrs Lusk, Mr and Mrs Templeton, H. G. Griffiths, J. Park, Williams, Mackay, A. McPherson, Bidiugs, Master P. Buttock, Maling, F. Samuel, G. P. Pierce, E. D. Wilcox. ,For Lyttelton—Foster, Willis, Captain Ohlson, Bennetj L. L. Tyerman. For Dunedin.—Graham, J. Bilson. For Hobartown—Col. and Mrs Shelton, Dr Young, Jas Coyle.

The French Convicts. In reply to the telegram forwarded by the Mayor containing a resolution passed by the City Council deprecating the importation of Communists, his Worship received the following reply from G. S. Cooper, Under Secretary, "In reply to your Worship's message' expressing in-, dignation at the action of;'the French authorities at New Caledonia, in sending a vessel with released convicts to New Zealand, Mr Hall directs me Co say that the question is engaging careful attention of the Government, and if it should be established that the action of the New Caledonian Government has been such as to justify a remonstrance on the part of the Government, the necessary steps will be taken for that purpose.—G'. 8. Cooper."

An action for assault brought by M. Peltzer, a French resident, against W. Bishop, owner of the schooner Griffin, and arising out of the landing of -the Communists was dismissed. The Irish .Belief, Fund amounts up to diteto £97&iOs. The legal expenses of W. H. Binden head master of the JNewton East School, incurred in defending an action in,the Police Court for whipping a boy for truancy, have- been defrayed by public subscription. This dfty. A.man named Proude, who left in one of Hilditch's boats for Kohimarama yes terday, was picked up in the barbor yesterday afternoon. The boat capsized off the North head, and he had been swimming an hour and a half before being rescued. „ - J. C. Young, Government Land Purchaser, has been arrested at Tauranga on three charges of embezzling three amounts of £51, £7, and £10 entrusted to him as. agent for the purchase of land. , Bail was accepted, himself in £1000 and j two sureties of £500 each. ' I ' Markets. I

Mr Binney reports Adelaide flour £15, Southern flour £12, oatmeal £14, pearl barley £23' to £24/; Maize (Fiji) £2 6s, Maize (Sydney) £3^ pollard £5 10s per ton, bran £4 to £6 per ton, oats from. Is 9d to 2s 2d per bushel; cheese (Canter* bury) 7d, local cheese sd, butter (salt) 4d to 8d ; potatoes £3 to £3 10s, onions fd per Ib, Sales continue rery dull, market glutted with grass seeds. -