AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5166, 7 August 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. The Customs receipts yesterday were £1140 5s ; the tone of the markets here is more satisfactory, and orders are coming in more freely for kauri gum, steady parcels finding buyers easily at the following rates: poor and ordinary, 25 to 30; fair and ordinary, 30 to 33; best ordinary, 35 to 38; East coast 45. Farm and dairy produce at last quotations. Business iv the South Island is said to be worse than at any time for the last 17 years, and there is a great j'number of people without a means of livelihood. The Waihora took to Sydney ten bags of quartz from the Ivanhoe company for a test by the LaMonto process. The funeral of Mr E. Graham, junr., was largely attended yesterday afternoon, - i

At the Lands Court, which opeDed ; yesterday at Cambridge, to re hear the Maungatanari cases, the applicant, Neri Nibora, did not appear; the Wgatihanas complained of the great expense the tribe had been put to over the re-hearing. The Hearld, in an article upon gold in the interior of the Island, says the natives have waived the objection to prospecting, and now allow any parties haviDg the sanction of the Government to look for gold. Mr G. S. Corbett writes long letters to the Herald narrating his experiences in the King country, and gives it as bia opinion that there is plenty of auriferous ground in it, and the quality of gold is different from that of the Thames district. It is said that Waikato residents propose at once forming a prospecting party for the King country.

(Pee Punas Association.)