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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 286, 4 December 1886, Page 2

CHRISTCaunca, Ihiß day.

A special private c&Me moseaga received la town to-day, dated London, Dicember 2od, s atoi that i_'allfornlan wheat cargoes are worth 3Ua 6d. There fs a strong demand, and priceß are expected to go higher. The Matron of the Upper Refuge desirea to acknowledge the receipt of a gift of hats from Mr Fenton, for the übo of inmates. The friends of Mr VVm. Noble, the wellknown evangelist, will bo pleased to learn that he is expected to arrive by the mail steamer Alameda to-morrow aJternoon on his way to England. Mr Noble will deliver an address at the City Hall Sunday evening service at 8 o'clock. On Monday afternoon, he will deliver his last address in the. lecture hall of the V.M.C.A. at i o'clock. The quarterly sittings of the Parnell and Ponsonby Licensing Courts were to have been bold to-day, but did not take place as there was no business to transact.

We are requested to call special attention to the extensive auction pale of freehold properties next Tuetday by D. F. Evans at noon, comprising splendid \il!a sites tt Avonriale, eommandiDS extensive and picturesque viawe, wliioh are for absolute sale, by oraer of the Kc2i9trar of the Supreme Court, and will be offoroS in one or moro lotß to suit purchaterß ; Boveral iirst-cl&gn villa residences ct Mount Kden. the proper tyot Mr Harper, who 18 leaving for Waltara. There will also ba Bold a house and allotment in Nelson-street; vtry pretty villa at Kpsom ; cottoge and large allotment at Shelly Beach: flrst-claBS lot in Brown-street, and comfortable oottage in Commercial Road.