LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
The Markets. Aitcklwd, Friday Night. TiiKKEnrc few alterations in the maikct price list. Butter has been reduced to Bd, wholesale lOd retiil ; eggs remain at last weeks quotations.
The Premier. Tho Prcmiei left Wancarei yestrrdav, for Daigavillo, and Mr Hales, (District Engineer), has hastened from Auckland to ini'ct him there. Roth gentlemen are expected back to-night by train, from Helcnsv ille.
Bound Over. Mr Blcvvdcn, con ti actor, was bound over to keep tho peace, for usiiil; abiuive anil insulting hnjju.tge to the mayor. Mr Blevvden apologised in police court today.
The Miranda Canal. This morning Mr Falion took several gangs of men in bnrges ami canoes tiom Mciecr to the Miianda coal mines to commence the work of constructing the canal which will connect the company's new shaft with Oie Miranda creek.
The Shootini? season. The biggest Img made in duck shooting this year was made by Messrs Hunter and Hell, who had Scaboume'a boat for one d.iv, and obtained 40 biace of birds.
The Anglo-Russian Outlook. The Wellington correspondent of the Star telegraphs to-day :— " lam informe I that the Agent-Gcneiul advises the Government in the fiiot place that the position of Anglo- Russian allaus remains unaltered. Almost immediately iollovving tlus message the Goveinmenticccived intoimation from the Agent General of the eng.icement at the Riv er Ku&h between the Russian troops and the AIF ghans on the 2Sth March last, in which the Attghans were defeated with thf loss of 000 men. The Agent- General looks upon tills attack of the Russian tioops after the ultimatum of England as tantamount to a deelaiation of war. After interviewing incmbeif, I waited upon his Excellency the iJovernor at Government House for the purpose of ascertaining if his Excellency had received any fwther information, but was informed that nothing had as yet reached his Excellency.
The Command of the Forces. Col. Hewitt, it is undei stood, has accepted the appointment of the Volunteer forces of the colony, and will leave immediately for Ins new sphcie of action.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2
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341LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2
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