AUCKLAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5311, 8 May 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

May 7..

The British King sailed for the South this evening. She has forty tons of cheese in the cooling chamber. Twenty of the single women immigrants for Canterbury have elected to remain here. All the immigrants have fallen into work. Johnson and Harbour's brewery, Anchill, has been totally destroyed by fire. It was built about eighteen months ago at a cost of £600. ; The British King took from here 71,660 lbs cheese for England, value £1479. May 8. Arrived : Wairarapa, from Sydney. Passengers — Mr and Mrs Brewater, Mrs Brown, Messrs Pirie, Goldie (2), Moore, Veresping, Holdship, Thomson, -Trainer, "Price, Bruce, G.reenbalgh, Bull, Battley," Pounds, Colonel Hozier, and thirty-one steerage. The chief item of news is that great dearth, of employment prevails in Sydney. A thousand men have been put on the reclamation and other works by Government to keep them occupied. The immigration ratehas been reduced in consequence of the surplus labor;