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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 15, 18 January 1889, Page 4

An ex-Aucklander, now in Queensland, writing under date January 7ch, says:— Sir,—ln your issue of December Ist, f read of a trial shipment of potatoes being sent to London. Could not the 3ame shippers be induced to try the Queensland market ? I do not- think there is a potato between heie and the gulf. For months the price has been going up, until it has now reached twenty - four (24) shillings per hundredweight (cwt), with every prospect of its going higheir still. I inclose an extract from the Brisbane " Evening Observer," from which you will see that potatoes are in very great demand here. A passage of five days' eteainingand no special preparation required, with the certainty of a good market, seems to me a great deal better than fortyfive days' steaming with contingent risks and expenses. I believe that sixthousand (6,000) tons could easily be placed between here and Cooktown at a very handsome prolit.

A case was heard at the Pukekohe Police Courb yesterday before R.M. Captain Jackson, when Mr Charles Andrews, ot Adams and Andrews was charged with running the tofcalisator at the Pukekoho Races without petting a icense. Defendant pleaded guilty, and stated that application had been made fora license, but too late for it to be granted. Afine of £3 and coats, 7s, was inflicted.