AUCKLAND.

Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1838, 19 November 1874, Page 6 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND.

Oite readers are aware that the convici

Dyer was executed at Auckland, on October 30th, for the murder of Eliza Battersea, and that he admitted his guilt to the Bishop of Auc/dand. We learn by the Auckland papers, that Bishop Cowie accompanied Dyer to the scaffold, and there bade him goodbye. When placed under the drop, Dyer addressed the Eev. Mr. Wallis, Weoleyan, the Eev. Mr. Coraford, Baptist, the Eev. Mr. Turner, Free Methodist, (who had attended to pray with him) and the Governor and officers of the gaol, as follows: —" Gentlemen, officers of this gaol—l feel very grateful for the kindness I have received from you— one and all. I have got no animosity against any man. I freely forgive everybody that ever did me any harm." The bolt was then removed, and the prisoner's death was instantaneous. During the month of October, 1,169 ozs. of gold came from the Coromandel (Auck-

land) reefs. The timber trade is very brisk at the Thames, and other districts in Auckland at present. At Mercury Bay, seventy hands are employed in turning out weekly one hundred tbousaud feet of timber.

Ripe lemons are dropping from the trees in Mason Brothers' nursery at Parnell, Auckland, so abundant is the crop this year.

An Arawa of considerable attainment and position, and who for some years past has been holding a high and responsible position

in the Native Lands office in Auckland, is said to be at present at Ohinemutu, inciting the natives to rebel at the action of the Government in treating through Messrs. Davis, Mitchell, and Toung, for laud in the Arawa country. He is being narrowly watched for the Government.

Me. Geobge Geaham, who had resided twentyseven years in the city of Auckland, and was greahly respected by all who kDew him, has lost his life in a strange manner. The Auckland papers of November 13th, reports that Mr. Graham, who was in ill health, ■was after much persuasion induced to go to his son Walter's residence at Eemuera, for a change. On November 12. " he was out in the yard of bis son's residence walking with his wife, but remaining a few yards behind her ; on Mrs. Graham turning round to speak to him, she observed him fall into a well, the lid of which he had lifted probably out of curiosity. Whether he was attacked by a fit at the instant, or accidentally stumbled, it is difficult to say." He was immediately taken out of the well, but life was extinct. It was the first time Mr. Graham had left Auckland for twenty-seven years, and he appeared to have a presentiment beforehand that some evil was about to befall him.

The barque Stanley Castle, from London, arrived at Auckland on November 4th, after a passage of 118 days, which was protracted by a suceasion of gales and unfavorable weather. She brought seven passengers.

The Golden Oown, the favorito steamer running between Auckland and the Thames, has been sold to a Sydney firm, for £12,500 Ngahubuhura, a venerable chief of the Arawa tribe, is dead. He was greatly respected by both Europeans and natives. The Auckland EeraU, says :—" Yesterday we inspected the very handsome tea-service and claret jugs, presented last evening to G. M. O'Borke, Esq., from his Onehunga constituents, as a mark of personal esteem. The service, &c, is of solid silver, the various pieces being richly ornamented after Etruscan and Egyptian patterns, with chased and engraved figures. The groups represented consist of warriors in chariots and on foot, returning from a victorious campaign, bearing trophies of war with them. The claret jugs bsar the following inscription which is taetefully engraved:—' Presented to George Maurice O'Eorke, Esq^ member of the General Assembly and Provincial Council, from his Onehunga constituents, as a mark of their esteem.' "

The losses of the Insurance offices by the fire in Wakefield and Rutland-streets, Auckland, on October 22nd, were :—New Zealand, £750 ; Norwich Union, £700 j Victoria, £650 ; Standard, £500; Imperial, £500; National, £250 ; total, £3,350. There new arrivals, who had commenced a game of wholesale plundering, at Auckland, have been sent to gaol for twelve months each. They were sentenced for eight petty larcenies. A new friendly society, entitled, " The Independent Order of Free Gardeners," has been established in Auckland. It has been enrolled under the Friendly Societies Act of New Zealand. The new society offers a most liberal scale of benefits to its members; the sick allowance being 21s weekly, and the sum payable at death being £21. During- the past year the Hobson Eifle Volunteer Company (Auckland) have expended fully £200 on their band.

The "stone crushed at, the Thames from September 24 to October 28, amounted to 8409 tons, and yielded 9551 ounces of gold. A whakeboat with a crew of seven natives has been lost at Eawiti (Auckland) whilst pursuing a cow and calf whale. It is supposed the boat foundered. A bettjbn of the number of electors for each electoral district, according to the rolls of the year 1873-4, shows that the number of electors for the House of Representatives amounts to 51,823. The Thames electoral district has the largest number of names on the r011—3466, the City of Dunedin coming next with 3242. The smallest electoral district is Wallace, in Otago, which only contains 103 electors. — New Zealand Herald. A Templabs 1 Benefit Society has been started at Auckland.

Mr. J. S. G-ibbons'S sawmill afc Waiuku, Auckland, gives employment to thirty men, and cuts on an average five thousand feet of timber per day. It is in contemplation to establish a manure manufactory at the Whau, Auckland. The' nativeß at Te Kuiti, Waikafco, Auckland, are in desperate straits for food, and are endeavoring to obtain advances on their present growing crops. A New Paper.—On Monday the 9th instant the 'Echo, a new evening journal, made its first appearance in Auckland. It is well written, well printed, and " well advertised," and bids fair to become a very formidable opponent of the opposition evening paper, the Star. Colonial Ingenuity.—The Sunday School Union Industrial Exhibition was opened at Auckland on November 11. The most attractive exhibits were a model of a weatherboard house, shingled, with verandah, complete, made by a boy ten years of age ; a pretty model of a house made of cork, by a boy eight years old; a splendid model of All Saints' Church and school; a model of a full-rigged ship; a model steam boiler and marine engine, ms \e by a factory lad; two pile driving machines; and a polished mahogany Arabian bedstead and furniture _ complete. The shareholders in the Manukau claim, at the Thames, has just had four thousand sterling divided amongst them as dividend. Railway Excursion. —Nearly four thousand persons travelled by railway from Auckland toElleralie, on November 9. The trains consisted of twenty-five long cars, with three engines attached. The Aucklanders were delighted with their excursion, and blest the great initiator of the policy (Mr. Vogel), by which they obtained the services of the iron-horse. The New Zealand Agricultural Society's show was held at Ellerslie, Auckland, on November 9, when six thousand persons attended. The exhibits numbered—horses, sixty-seven; cattle, thirty-nine; sheep, sixty-five; swine, four; poultry, six; and local industries, sixty-six. The ship Hydaspes, after apassage of 80 days from (Jravesend, arrived at Auckland on November 6th. She brought twenty saloon passengers, and 297| statute adult immigrants. She bad to be placed in quarantine having sickness on board. Two births nd. twelve deaths ooourted, during the paawge.

Ok November 11, three thousand seven hundre and thirty-eight ounces of gold left the Thames for Auckland.

The schooner Coronet, from Tahiti; arrived at Auckland on Nor. sth. She brings intelligence that two American sbip§, one named Mogul, and the other unknown, have been burned to the waters edge, in the Pacific. The two calamities reported, present a very extraordinary feature. Both vessels belonged to the same American firm; both loaded coals at Liverpool for San Franoisco; both burned within a day or two of one another; and crews of both found shelter at the Marquesas Island. All hands of the Mogul were saved,*affter having been nearly seventy days in the open boats. Captain, mate, and one boats crew of the other vessel were lost, but the second mate brought the other orew safely to Marquesas Island, after 22 days privations and difficulties, having been all that time without instruments or charts, a small piece of card-board on which the course was marked off, was the only means of reckoning used. The vessels when burnt were 2000 miles from land. The first crew arrived at Tahiti on the same day as the Coronet, and the last one arrived seven days after.

The following telegram has been sent by Sir George G-rey, in reply to one from Mr. Eitzhtarbert:—''Thank you for your telegram. Surely men worthy of the great liberties they hare, will not let them be taken from themselves and their descendants without a struggle. The British Parliament which gave them considered them so valuable that, in each amending Act, it made them more secure. Pray telegraph, as Superintendent to the Secretary of State, and point out that the course taken is unconstitutional, and ask that no action may be taken until after anew election has taken place, and the Provinces have been heard. Parliament will at once accede to this. —G. Grey."

Sib Geobgke Gbey proposes that the House of Assembly should be abolished, and a new elective Council, created of twenty or thirty members, whose duties should be confined to general work, leaving the internal affairs to be administered by the Provincial Governments, with, laTger powers than they at present possess. There should also be a Federal Council, to elect a President, who should be the head of the Colony for the time being.