AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 270, 31 October 1862, Page 4

AUCKLAND.

There have been no foreign arriyals during the week; and but one departure, the schooner Coral Queen, for the South Sen Islands. The French barque Eugene, is now a bumper ship, with a heavy cargo of oil, kauri gum, and other colonial produce; she is intended to clear for London this morning. The supplies coastwise, consisted of 1982 bushels wheat, 1328 bushels maize, 4 cwt onions, 6 tons potatoes, 2 kits lemons, 10 cwt bacon, 215 cwt .'alt pork 42 cwt flax, 337 lb iard, 3 tuns humpback oil, 722 lbs butler, 8 dozen eggs, 1 hide, 300 Ib 3 wool, 12 tons kauri gom, 6 tons bark, 14 fowls, 61 pig 3, 71 head of ctttle, 101 tons firewood, 7000 bricks, 200 rails, 17,000 fret limber. , The Custom*! Revenue received during the w?ek endef tte 11th insfc-, amour.ted to £1297 2s 101. On Tuesday, the 14th, Messrs Connell and Ridings offere I a quantity of groceries, oilmen's stores, hotted fruits, &c, to public competition ; there was a gool attendance of buyers, an active competition, and satisfactory prices were obtained.— Neio Zealander, 18th October. At Messrs Cheesennn, Hunter, and Co/s cattle sale, held at Ncwmnrktt on Tuesday last, the following prices were realised :—Cows, Lls to L2l • ! bullocks, Lls 5s to L'iO ss; heifei-s, L 6 to Ll3 5 : yearling, 15 ss; steers, L 3 .7a 6d to Ll4 7s 6M • calves, LI toL2ls*; lambs, 12s 6d tolas: sheep, 24s 6d to 43s 6d; pigs, 21s to LI 6; Gd; small do, 0* Jo os 0:1.Yesterday, at their mart Fort-street, Messw S. Cochrane, Brother and Co, held a trade sale of teas, candles, &c, when the following prices were real- I ised :—Floar, IGs 9d to 17s 3d ; sauces, \ pints, 6.s G.I to 7s per doz n; Ilh mustard 9s to 9s 9d per do; £lb mustard, 5s 91 per do, h pint capers, 9s 3d to 9s ed per do; anchovies, Cs 3d to 6s Gi per ' do; Keiller'sjams, 10^ 3i p-r do; Morton's jams 14s GI per do; cast>r oil, «s 3J to 8d 61 per do; moujd caudles, s|i par lb ; .No. 1 BeSuumts, Is 33,, Per lb : muscatel raisins, Is Hd per lb ; whiting, 5s 9J per cwt; tea, ex Overmarm, L 9 53 per chest'; !"te->, ex John Steplienson, L 9 10.? per do ; tea, ex Wilhilmiue, L 9 o^ per chest ; {Sydney, soap. 33s Gi per cwfc . clofche3 pegs, 9d per box of 5 gross.— Southern Cross, 18th Oct.

A.nb3dote 6i? Loud Bristol.—He received permission to see the coffin of Frederick the Great, and clergyman and sexton received the Bishop with great respest, but were surprised to see him ride up as a carele^ly drc&e:] gentleman with gold spin-3, leather cap and thick huutingwhip ;;■ and were, more surprised when, after some siient reflection, he suddenly raised his whip, struck the coffin with it, so that the vault echoed again, and shouted " ReveilU-toi, et remtts ordre dans la, maudite confusion dans laquelle ton successmr ci laisseS tomber V6tat? at the same time he was guest and-friend-of this successor. In his drunkeuness he dared anything and once said to the Duke of Cambridge, " Ton p&re ' erfcunc b&e, et toi tv n'es qtb'urie belle statue, sans iiUd igence.\' But any thing aviw tolerated from him ias madness ran in his blood.— The Journals:of Vatn'- ■ Juigen yon Ense—\Tagdbihcher yon Varnhagen yon JEme.l

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ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION.

THIS DAY. S. G. Isaacs, at tli,e London Auction Mart—Greenwich Park Estate.' Wright, Robbbtsox, and Co., at the Commercial bale Yards-Put Pig?. .