AUCKLAND.
October 20
The City Council has refused to take a poll of the burgesses on the question of bringing into operation or otherwise the Contagious Diseases Act. A.t yesternight's meeting several councillors expressed an opinion that legal proceedings should be taken against a so-called religious paper for printing an obscene advertisement intended as a skit on the Act.
Sir George Grey has assented to the proposal of the City Council to transfer his library to the Auckland Museum for public use, and has promised further gifts of old manuscripts to the Auckland library.
The Harbor Board has resolved to procure one of Prestman's dredges with all tbe latest improvements, and improve the present dredges, at a total cost of £1300 and involving an annual expenditute of £1000.
George Duncan, aged 18, and W. Leighton, his cousin, while working yesterday at brickraaking at Henderson's Mill, were buried alive by the fall of a bank of earth fourteen feet high. Watson Duncan noticed the accideet from a distance, and went and dug where he heard the voice of Leighton, and got him out alive, but when George Duncan was got out he was dead, having evidently been suffocated. The bank had loosened through tbe late rains.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3521, 20 October 1882, Page 3
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205AUCKLAND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3521, 20 October 1882, Page 3
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