AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3076, 6 May 1881, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

May 6. Mr Williams,*" late principal of the Swansea Normal) College, who arrived here by the ship Sydenham, has been appointed to the vacant mastership of the Dunedin High School.

Mr F. A. Whitaker, M.H.R., writes a long letter to the Waikato Times re-; plying to T Sir, George Grey, whom h6 charges with procuring for the Thames expenditure on useless reclamations and other works.

The Resident Magistrate has appointed a sergeant of, police to enforce the. provisions of the' Employment of Females Act, which hitherto have been a dead letter in Auckland. , '<

Beedell's (late Suiter's) brewery in the North-road was totally destroyed by fire at .three o'clock this. morning. It. was burned down before about two years ago. The insurance' amounts t6' ; £2ooo in various offices* •

. Captain Fairchild, in the Stella, has completed buoying Whangarei harbor, so that vessels of any tonnage can get to Limestone Island to load coal.

There is every prospect of the judgment given in the R.M. Court for the complainant in the case of Rees v. Wickham being reversed by the Supreme Court. ...-,. !

The Government, on the representation ofithe Acclimatisation Society,;have withdrawn the prohibition against shoot< ing hen pheasants. Only 133 licenses have been taken oat yet. John Goldie; carpenter, was found dead in hisbed yesterday morning. Tbe cause is believed to be heart disease. His uncle, Mr Goldie, is an ex-M.H.R. Dr. Philson has released from quarantine all the passengers from the City of New York except Mrs Cruiden and Jier four children. Those little ones were attacked by measles, but are now convalescent. T.he hulk containing a portion of the mail steamer's cargo has been towed up the harbor.