AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3530, 31 October 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

October 31

Max Wisler, a young German connected with the great Hamburgh shipping firm of Storoans and Co., who had come here from Germany for the purpose of reporting on the capabilities of Waikato land for the production of sugar beet, died of congestion of the luDgs on Sunday. He had spoken favorably of tbe land, and was about to proceed home for the purpose of forming a scheme for the introduction of German labor and capital, and for the erection of the best machinery. A lad named Miller, aged 16, whose father keeps a store on Grafton road, went down a gully between that road, and the Domain to search for ferns. He was accompanied by a companion younger than himself. Miller climbed to the top of a fence to get over to where the ferns were growing. On top of the fence were fixed iron spikes, and, when Miller was balancing himself on the top to jump clear, he slipped down, and one of the spikes caught in his thigh, and so he was kept hanging on the fence. The boy who was with him was not strong enough to disengage him, and ran for his father. When he arrived he found that the son, by struggling, bad disengaged himself from the spikes, and had fallen to the ground, where he was lying in a pool of blood. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital in a delirious condition, and small hopes are entertained of his recovery.

Rewi Maniapoto approves of the proposed English Land Company and the Auckland Native Land Colonisation Company, but thinks they should unite, in which case he would become a director.

A number of Te Whiti's followers are living at Whatiwhatihoe, and are prophecying after the manner of Te Whiti. It is thought probable that the movement will increase.

Mr J. "B. Compton has resigned his chairmanship and membership of the Harbor Board. His reasons for taking that step have not been disclosed. Young Long- has been brought down to Auckland by Detective Strathern and removed to the hospital for medical treatment.

Mr Pond, the colonial analyst, has reported to Superintendent Thompson that he failed to find arsenic in the stomach or the intestines of tbe late Mrs Hedges. The daughter's statement thus proves a falsification as to the woman having been poisoned by her husband. Tbe body of William Cook, who was drowned from the yacht Madge on Sunday week, was found yesterday greatly decomposed.