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

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1789, 22 December 1883, Page 2

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

Church Bazaar. Auckland, Last Night. The St. Benedict's Church bazaar opened to-day, and was well attended.

, „ .The Triumph. . * Operations for the Vil vage^ ~of Hlic machinery and cargo of the Triumph, are proceediug vigorously.

The Markets. Tlic market prices for locnl produce have not materially altered. Butter continues plentiful, the wholesale value toeing Sd, and tile retail lOd per pound. Efgs weie lather scatce dining the week until to-day, when a great quantity arrived in town from the various quarters. Consequently prices remain the same as last week, viz., wholesale, Is 3d ; retail, Is 6<l per dozen.

Tenders arc united for knocking down tea-tree on the estate of>Mr Knorpp, Horotiu. .Members ot the Cambridge Torkcv Club are inloimed that their tickets tor 1888 \\i\\ be .bailable for the New Year's Day Meeting-, An election to hll the vacancy of the Hamilton Borough Council will be held on the 10th January. Nominations must be in before the 28th inst, - ' ' ' ■ I / Tenants of the Hamilton Domain Hoard" are warned, that if t'jc rents arc not paid regu.la.rly their lands' w>ll be liable tn forfeiture. A fiist-class blacksmith's business in a central township in W.iikato is advertised for sale. Particulars may be had at this office, ' i 'I he Chnstrnas advertisement of Mr William Rattray, draper, clothier and silk mercer, Queenstreet Auckland, appears in another column,' and calls for attention. , Mr C. Sutton, Half-way House, AVaitetuna. offers a reward for the reco\cry of «i strayed horse. Special attention is directed to the Christmas advertisement of Miss M. Doran,. of Cambridge. Mr J. S Auckland will sell about the end of the present month, 2000 large wethers overland from Napier, 4 andC tooth, three-quarter bred ' 'MrJ. S. Nutkian&ttill sell at the >ards^ Waihou, on the 3rd January, 100 mixed stores,' fat cattle and sheep, dairy cows, pigs, horses, Sec. 'Ihe Waikato Cheese and Hacon JL'actory Comp.my are prepared.^ 0 sell 50 acres of good pasture land a joining: the factory on exceptionally eas> terms An industrious family, by keeping co.\s and supplying milk to the f.ictory could recoup the cost of the land in a very few years. One Shilling,— Francis J. Shortts' Popular Art Union.— Ten first-class Oil Paintings by celebrated artists. 5000 tickets at 'is. The prizes arc magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or ! otherwise will ha\c tickets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for reply.— Fkancjs J. Shouti 1 , 140, Queen-street, Auckland. — [Advt.] Rats a^d Mice. —If you wish to destroy them get a packet of Hill's Magic Vkrmin Kim.i'k in packets, 6d, 9d, and Is, to be obtained ©fall storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by'enrlosing an extra slant p. , , (

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