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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 290, 6 December 1889, Page 3

Captain FaircHild, of the Goverhhient 1 steamer Hih___oa, which searched the Three Kings a fevv day. a£o for traces Of bhe losb .ship Counby of Carnarvon, is of opinion that the ill-fated vessel struck on some of bhe rocks of the Kings islands in a gale and Went to the bottom without leaving any vestige of her fabß further than the boat and a small quantity of wreckage washed ashore.

Todays ab noon» Messrs Jackson and: Creamer sold by alictidn the privileges for the Pakurangl. Hunt. Club's spring race melting, to be held oh the Otahuhii Racecourse on Saturday, Dec. 14fch. The right of the gates was Sold to John Adams for £20 ; booth, Jas. Quintan, £32; refresh l meftb stalls, M. Lubher* £115s ; stabling, J. Howard, £ 1 17s od j cards, Seobb and CO., £16.

Mtr Weaver, an ehfcerprising iruib-grdfaer in Whkbgarei, ha. Opened the nos fc shop to Messrs Torik. and Carr's Auction Mart, where he meatts to Sell his own fruit direct to the consumer. He is one of the biggest grape growers in tho colony, ahd as his grapes (through steam power) are now fully ready to cut, he places to-day a lairge quantity in his window to tempi) the passers-by.'.,.' 7..., ...

Henry: "So you asked eld Growler for his daughter last night, did you, Fred ? And how did you. come out ?" Fred : •' 16 was a window, I believe, Harry. That was the besb I could d»* though."