AUCKLAND. 11th February.
Mr. Alexander Saunders reports : — Buyers : South British, 54a 6d ; Aationai Batik, 745; Banft of New Zealand, 3455; cupping, 70a ; Beach, o'7s ; Bay of Islands Coal, 765 ; Toketea, 10a ; Fiji, 425. Sellers : Caledonian, 455 ; Bismarck, Da 6d ; Albion. 10s. ' The millers have lowered the price of flour £1 per ton. 12th February. The schooner Peerless, the vessel which caused the row with tsteinberger at Samoa, has arrived. Steiuberger, after fortifying himself on shore, was arrested, but, defying the authority of the American Consul, the assistance of H.M.S.* Barracouta, then in harbor, was requested. This was accorded, and eventually the schooner was seized, and by order of the captain of the Barracouta « and the Arnericau Consul, was sold for breach of neutrality for carrying arms. A meeting of consuls aboard H.M S. Barracouta (in consequence of numerous malpractices of the Sumoan Government, i.i direct opposition to civilized laws) dret* up a code of laws for protection aud safety. Those laws render all action of the Sainoan Government against foreign subjects null and void, unless sauctioned by the consuls Co which the subject belongs.
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Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1876, Page 2
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184AUCKLAND. 11th February. Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1876, Page 2
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