LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1711, 23 June 1883, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDEN T.]

The Markets. Auckland, Last Night. The maikcb piiccs today shows nuinetV ous impel tint .ilteiations. Uutter lins ,»1 \ meed 31, ami is now woi tli ]s ikij wholesale, and Is Od, retail, while egg's are vci y ]'l Mitiful, and have declined to Is 3d, wl'ol 'sale, and Is Oil, retail, per dozen. Kauri gum continues to advance, .uid is woi th about £1 a ton nioie than pi iu-s quoted last uoek. Ihe other cnanges aic : — Mutton, hind quaiters, ill to 4',il per lb ; hay (meadow, pressed,) i'G per ton : fow I wheat, 3s Od to 3s 9(1 per bushel ; flax, £19 to £21 par ton ; tow, £7 1(K to £9.

The Stolen Jewellery Found. The jcwellory taken from Mr Henrickren's shop has been found planted in the Domain.

Supreme Court. In the case Weston tl.t 1 . Trustees • ill Reed's estiitn, Poveiby Bay, judgment was ghen for plaintiff.

Tur. United States gulped down 93 000,000 srsillorisof beer in ISBI. It is said that when Mrs Langtry was told that Mis*. Blanche Roosevelt had been mistaken, for her, sho replied with languid egotism, 'Is she really so very beautiful ? 1 Your husband is a staid man now, is he not ?' asked a former schoolmate of hei friend who had married a man rather noted for his fast habits. "I think so,' was the reply ; he stayed out last night.' A youjco man in a train was making fim of a lady's hat to an elderly gentleman in the seat with him. 'Yes,' said his neighbour, ' that's my wife, and I told her if she wore that bonnet that some fool would make fun of'it." Tin. large mosaic poi trait of Gac'^Udg which SaKiiiti, of Venice, lias l )re^j|HM to the United States, os a cpn^pflon t? his poifctait of Lincoln, ti^^r reached London, where it is attractiuj£ admiring attention. It is composed of SOW) minute pieces of enamel, and at a littlAdistance it is said to be almost imp*sible to distinguish it fiom an oil, painting, over which it of course has the advantage of never-fading dutability. It is, moreover, called a faithful likeness. A Minlsti/rM inlsti/r was travelling along a country road in Scotland one day in winter, riding rather a long lean horse, and he himself dressed in rather an odd looking cap and large camlet cloak, ■when a gentleman came along riding a fine hoi so, which shied at the preacher and his horse. " Well sir," said the gentleman, •' ye wud scare the vera deil, sir." '• That's my business, sir," said the preacher. The statement that a Society for the suppression of blasphemous literature intended to get up cases against Professors Huxley and Tyndail, Mr Herbert I Spencer, Mr Swinburne, the author of Supernatural Religion, Mr Leslie Stephen, Dr. Martinet n, and others, was a hoax. j Dr Wainwright, who was mentioned as the moving spirit, says that he knows of no such Society. The ideaof such a thing, he said, was monstrous " Why, I would undertake to justify the Chvistian relisriou from the writings, of Huxley and Tyndail, and more particularly those of Mill ; and ■ yet it is said that I am about to ,prose» oute then\ and, their publishers." ,•, „ ,