LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1831, 1 April 1884, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

[BY TEMXUUPH. — JWV COHHKSrOXDKVr.] Tawhiao's Trip Home. ArcKiAM), Monday Night. TA\\invo't> p.uty, for whom pass.iges have been taken per the Onent steamui Soiato, mimbei.s five, namelj- — Tawln.io, Te Whcoio, Topiii Pataia, Te Tulii, ami Mr Skidtnoie, intupietei. Paul, of Oraki, is too ill to go. They lea\ c loi Sydney by the 'laiaweia to mouow. The Sbud Company. At the meeting of the Stud and Pedigree Stock Company today, the lepoit showed a loss of £1,000 on the yeafs business, attributed to the intuest on the large capital absoi hed by recent acquisitions of land and cattle, and to tin* levalualion ot stock. The leporfc was adopted, and the directors re-elected. Kuranui G-oldmining Company. Accounts presented at the meeting of th«* Kuranui Company to da\ showed that the operations duung the >eir had lipen carried on at a considerable loss, the directors continuing opeiations in tlie hope that there ate fin ther neh deposits in the company's piopeity which may yet be come upon, and winch should recoup losses sustained. Tramway Company. The first annual meeting ot the Tiamway Company was held to-day. The directors' report stated tint tendeis would be forthwith called for Jenois load con necting I'onsonby-stieet and the College Hill portion of the line, which at fii&t will be can led on with hoise tialhc, leaving in abeyaiifc foi the piesent the question of the construction of the underground cable. The line between Queen street whaif and Kaiauyahape load will be opened for tiaffic in about tour weeks That portion of the lino between Q.iecnstreet whaif and Ponsonby, \ia Fieeman's Bay, will a'so be opened before the w hole work is complete. Auckland Agricultural and Mercantile Company. A meeting of the shareholders in the Auckland Agiicultuial and Mercantile Company was held this afternoon, the proceedings being of a private cluu actcr. No dividend will be earned, the balance from the yeai s operations being cai ried to credit of profit and loss account.

A coREESPONDhNT of a Queensland paper, who has travelled a good deal in New Guinea, estimates the native population of that country at 5,000,000, Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to de stroy them get a packet of Hill's Magic Vermin Killf.r in packets, Cd, i)d, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enclosing an extia stamp. One Shilling. — Frauds J. Shortts' Popular Art Union.— Ten first-class Oil Paintings by celebrated artists. 5000 tickets at Is. The prizes are m.ignificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will have tickets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for replv.— Fkancjs J. Shoutt, 140, Queen-street, Auckland.— [Advt.] Life in the Bush— Then and Now.— It is generally supposed that in the bush we have td put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Hjll, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned meats his Colonial Sauce gives to them a most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improved Colonial Baking Powder makes the very best bread, scones, cakes, ana pastry far superior and more wholesome than yeast or eaven. Sold by all storekeepers who can obain from any merchant in Auckland.