AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3910, 11 July 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day,

The Government have ordered the Health Officer to admit the steamer Bowen to pratique. The order for her release has gone to the quarantine station.

The Supreme Court has been occupied all day wiih the charge of arson against the Biudon brothers.

The steamer Bowen arrived last night from Hongkong after a passage of 27 days, with the cargo of teas for New Zealand. The pilot brought her straight up the harbor, but it appears, however, that the Health Officer had received a telegram on Saturday evening that all cordingly went off" to the Bowen and found she had a cleau bill of health from China ports are declared infected, so he acthe Hong Kong authorities, and there was no disease there when she left. She brought no passengers. Dr Philson considered that the vessel had been long enough at sea for any disease to develop, and thought the vessel might be liberated but he had no alternative but to order her into quarantine. He has since telegraphed to the Government, advising her release, but no reply has been received.

A general discontent prevails here relative to the maladministration of the quarantine arrangements, and both papers strongly condemn the Government in the matter of the Local Board of Health, which resigned because its recommendations, after mature consideration, wero ignored at Wellington, and the local quarantine officer treated the Board's existence and authority with contempt.

The Tea Crop.

News by the s.s. Bowen is of little interest. The general verdict re the tea crop is, that the leaf is damaged in appearance at least, by heavy rains, and although the actual rates are lower than last year, when the inferiority of the leaf and the difference of exchange, &c, is considered, they come out nearly seven per cent, higher than last year. At Canton 4500 boxes of Congou sold at 15 to 25 taels per picul; scented caper, 50,000 boxes, at llf to 26 taels per picul ; scented orange Pekoe, 7600 boxes, at 13 to 24 taels per picul. The first muster of Hankow and Kiniang teas were offered on the 16th of May. The market opened at 31 to 32 taels for Ningchow, and 25 to 28 per picul for Toongsan.—The steamer Grlencoe was the favorite for the tea race to London. She left on the 22nd of May with 2,948,4201b5. The London Castle was the second favorite.