LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2543, 27 October 1888, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

(BV TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, Friday. At the meeting of the Board of Education to day, tliii debate oil Mr Cooper's resolutions relative to retrenchment, resulted in the, whole question being referred to a special committee to report. At the Cruwn lands sales to-day, a number of sections in Waiuku and Titirangi were disposed of. There was no great bidding, and the total realised by the sale was £1000 10s. A house in Customs street West, owned by Mr Patrick Gleeson, and occupied by Mr McDonald, an engineer, has been totally destroyed by fire. Tlio two youths who, whilst practising with a rifle at Surrey Hills, nearly hit a man and child, were fined Jt'l and costs. Shareinarket: National Bank, buyers., 3as (id ; Colonial Bank, 435, buyers, 43s (id ; New Zealand Insurance, sellers, 8(h ; South British Insurance, sellers, -10s Gd ; Standard Insurance, buyers, 14s; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, sellers, 80s ; Auckland gas, £10 14-s fid, lmyer*, £10 15s, sellers, £11 7s (id; Cambria, 2s 10i to 3i Id, buyers, 2s lOd, sellers, 3s 2d; Saxon, buyers. Jis, sellers. 4s 3d ; Alburnia, sellers, 2s ; Paroquet, 3s 3d ; Getn, buyers, 7d ; Crown, buyers, 3s !)J, sellers, 4s 3d ; Royal Oaks, sellers. 4s. Mr A. Beamy, of the Archill Iron Works, lias completed an iron tower 30 feet high for the Cuvier Island Lighthouse. It is in three tiers, and the aggregate weight exceeds eighty tons. This is the first work of the kind executed in the colony, and is highly creditable to the local ironfoiindry industry. The work has been completed in four months, one month under the contract time, to the entire satisfaction of the Government Inspector.