LATEST AUCKLAND HEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1982, 21 March 1885, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND HEWS.

H\ TKLfcORAPH.— U\VS COHKhSPONDKNT.] Acckh.nd, b'lid.iy Night. Horticultural Show. L'kk Gardner's Horticultural Show is i great success. JL'neie aie *2UI varieties >i apples exhibited, and very interstmg exhibits iv the bee department, (tic tulluvMiig are oome of the prizes : — .i-st ltaluii queen, aceompauied by aouie of progeny, Ist £1, L. J. Bagnall. Finest extracted hi»»»ey, not less man 20 lbs, Ist, J. Hopkins ; 2nd, Mevenson. Largest display of -xtracted honey, Ist, Hopkins Finest comb honey lit sections not lest than *20lb, Hopkins Ist, JBelcoe 2nd. uuigtst di-ipla^ ot comb lioney in suctions, ik-koe Ist, Hopkins 2nd. Best and neatest i;ot up packages of comb lioney tot marketing, Collins Ist, Belcoe 2nd. Best hive for como lioney with surplus arrangements, Bagnall and Co. Ist. liest line for extracted honey with surplus arrangements, Bagnall and Co. Ist. Best ime for observatory purposes, stocked with bees and queen, Bagnall and Co. Ist

The Markets. V\ liolesale butter, fresh, Is ; salt (scarce), 8d to iHd ; cheese, good factory, o\d to G^d ; Oanterbuiy, ojd to s^d; etfKs, per do^cn, Is 9d ; lard in bladdtr, l\d to I\d ; bacon and hanu, provincial, (id to Sil ; hams, Sd to 9d.

On 'Change. The sharemarket is quiet. There ia little doing in bank and insurance stock, ami quotations are the same as the previous w eek. S >les are as under : — Prince Imperial, 9s ; Cambria, Ss to 9s 3d ; Caledonian (low level), (id ; Moanatairi Kxtended, sellers, Is 9d ; Queen of Beauty, sellers, Is 9d.

Agricultural Poktry. — The Boston Herald makes the following extract from a poem which iiov. Robimon is said to have prepared to re*d at Massachusetts agricultural fairs ;— Kkrb, butter, bausapfe, pork and bean*, Sheep, o\cn, horses, bulla and cow-., Calve*, mules and asse.s, pigs and sows, Cabbage, potatoes, turnips, greens, Plates, cups and saucers, sonp tureens, Furnituiii, carpets, oilcloth, matting, Silk*, satins velvert, muslin*, je.in.9, lied ticks nnd cotton batting. A Modki. Hu\o\ki\n' Gypsy. — Johai tells a story of a gypsy which illustrates the happy freedom from all the ordinary rubtiaints of civilisation which characterises the race. The gypsy was the happj father of a flourishing progeny of twelve children, one of whom a hunter happened to shoot one day, mistaking it for his more law ful prey. To console the unhappy father, the repentant hunter gare him a compensation in money, which he considered approaching adequacy from his own point of view, but which seemed so magnificent to the gypsy father that he ventured to suggest if his beneiactor should think of hunting again, he still had eleven children who might be turned to account by a similar advantageous mistake. — Manhattan. Ihe usual ser\ic es at the We^leyan Churcb, Hamilton, to-morrow, are advertised elsewhere. lenders are ii y t-'d for building a cottage on the Horotiu est ite. I'Uns &c. can be seen at the office ot Mr T G. Sandes, C.E , Hamilton. Attention is drawn to Mr John Knoxs drapciy advertisement. Persons indebted to Mr J T. Camp arc directed to a notice in ar« her column, Mr John Knox will sell at the Hamilton Auction Mart to diy, prize applet from the •.ltuw, vegetables, potatoes, poultry, peacock amd hen, sundries, &c. Mr J. \V K'id^man returns thanks to those tv bo so kindly assisted in removing bis goods oil the occasion of the Ute fire a( T« Aw*muti4.