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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 143, 18 June 1888, Page 8

Business was done in several of the mining stocks to-day. Cambrias changed hands at 8s 6d, at which price they may now be obtained, but buyers only ofier 8s 3d; Saxons sold at 4s 3d, and buyers offer 4s, but sellers stand off for 4s 3d ; Fearnoughts were purchased at sd—buyers offer 4d, but sellers want 6d ; Colonists were bought for 4s, and may be now had at 4s 3d. The new shares of the Auckland Gas Company were purchased at £5 12s. The Rev. G. B. Munro, minister of St: Luke's Presbyterian Church, Remuera, returned to Auckland this morning. Mr Munro has recently been on a visit to Gisborne. A number of local railway employees intend to entertain at supper to-night severa of their comrades who have received orders to leave Auckland for tho South. The list of old New Zealand colonists has been still further curtailed by the death of Mrs Gould, wife of the Rev. Mr Gould, of Otahuhu, who succumbed to an affection of the throat about midnight of yesterday. The deceased lady came to Russell when only six months of age, and married there. For the pasfa 27 years she resided at Otahuhu, and brought up to manhood a family of sixteen children. She had been ailing for the past nine months, and was attended by Dr. Purchas. Another old identity has also passed away from our midst in the person of Mr Henry Ridings, senr., who died at Newton Road this morning at tho I ripo ago of 74 years.