AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3327, 21 August 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night.

It is rumored Mr SCeeUanvfillcontest City East with J. McCosh Clark.

Captain Colbeck tnet the Marsden electors at Waipu and received a. vote of confidence.

At the Chamber of Commerce meeting, for the purpose of considering a memorial received from t^e Sydney Chamber of, Commerce off the subjects of the American tariff and the desirability of securing some reduction in favor of colonial products,' Mr Dargayille's motion was carried against three different amend--meutey:-nainelyr-"Thatithe-interests of the colony, and, particularly ,of this provincial district,'will not be served by throwing open our markets free to the products of other countries, while Njbw Zealand products of the same, class are iek&uded^fronv theirs." • ' H ;

Sailed : s.s. Southern Cross for Napier. Three steam stone breaking machines are landed forlhe iise of the Mount Eden stockade. :

A writ has been, served on John Lamb by Mr Keesing re recent landslips Jat Emily Place, Fort Britpmart. . v . : ' K^bett Graham met the electors ;at Onehunga, but they declined to accord him a vote of thanks. ] J. B. Whyte, the Mayor of Hamilton, has announced his candidature. He adheres to $he main features of { Grey's ■$alifls} fbut * 'refuses lo' promises blind obedience. 1 (i Mr P. Whitaker met the electors iof Eden at Newmarket, and received a vdte of thanks. i

Mr Reader' Wood met the electors ?df, Waitemata at Devonporfe, and received a rote of confidence. -