AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3069, 28 April 1881, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

April 28. At a meeting of the Governors of the Grammar School to-day Mr Hesketh gave notice of a series of resolutions to the effect that the recent decisions of the board re notice of termination of engagements with the masters of the school, and the entrance upon negotiations for procuring a university graduate as head master, be revoked and annulled on various grounds, but principally because the decisions were hastily and irregularly arrived at, and because those who constituted the majority were Sir George O'Rorke, Mr Fenton, and the three nominees whose election they secured by personally soliciting vote 9 for them, namely, Messrs Brookfield, Tole, and Nelson. The resolutions are couched in very bitter terms, and are likely to provoke a most acrimonious discussion. Sir George O'Rorke stigmatised them as most offensive. Mr Clark also gave notice that he would move that the Government take over the present college for the purposes of a girl's high school, and pay the cost to tbe board of erecting another building.

On the arrival of the City of Sydney, the Hon. Fredk. Whitaker, Mr J M. Clarke (Mayor), Mr Seymour George M.H.R., and several ladies who had known Lady Gordon at Fiji or in Auckland, proceeded in the Customs launch to meet her Ladyship. Lady Gordon, with the Misses Gordon, Capt. Knollys (aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Gordon), and her Ladyship's suite were conveyed in the launch to the wharf. There a carriage was waiting in which Lady Gordon and family proceeded to Onehunga. The Hon. the AttorneyGeneral having arrived shortly before escorted her Ladyship down the wharf and on hoard the Hinemoa. Cole's circus is stated to have netted £40,000 by the tour. It took back, besides the menagerie, many more animals, including 12 kangaroos, 12 , emus, 500 parrots, and a number of other Australian birds. Forty Mormons left by the mail steamer for Utah. The twelve seamen of the ship Oxford, from London, who were convicted of broaching cargo to the extent of £100, were sentenced yesterday to varying terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of wages. Mr J. D. Wickham, of the Free Lance, was bound over yesterday on the complaint of Mr W. L. Rees, to keep the peace tor three months—himself in £50 with two sureties in £25 each. David Olphert, a young managed 18 years, died suddenly yesterday of lock-

mwmmmmmm—mmmmm—m—mmmmmwmm—mwmm—wm%l—t jaw. He ran a nail in his foot a fortnight ago, but paid no attention to it and went to business as usual.