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

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2008, 21 May 1885, Page 2

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

Manufacture of Ammunition. Auckland, Wednesday Night. Col. WiurMOKh lias just concluded on behalf of the Government, a contract with Cipt. Whitney of this city for the nunuf.ictuio of r»00,000 rounds of snider am munition, (Japt. Whitney, who is captain of the Auckland (Jarnson Artillery, is able to supply cartridges of iinintz metal and of excellent type. He lias people in Ins employment acquainted with the matmfactmc of ammunition. The price is not a very serious advance on the cost of the imported .utiele. The caitiidges aie to be nude heie, but it is not specified th.it locally manufactured pow del is to be used. A caitndgc company will be formed.

Employment in Factories, Half a-ilo/en persons were charged toilny under the Kmployment of Females and others Act, and fined in a nominal amount of la. The Bunch remarked that if the act was going to apply to all trades in the county, it would be a serious matter. Sergt. (iambic replied tint the act did not nai.li agiieultui ista, ami was. only applied to young poisons under 1(5 employed in f.ictoues and shops.

The Schooner Nightingale. Capt. Short and the missing boat from the schooner Nightingale arrived to-day iv Aiawata, having been picked up by a banjue, and carried to Fiji.

Moturoa Railway Contract, The tender ot J. G. Newman, of New Plymouth, £BtWO, has been accepted for the Moturoa contract.

Northern S.S. Company. At the meeting of the Northern Steamship Company to day, the report showed a heavy loss in the business.

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