AUCKLAND NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4877, 29 March 1887, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

TO DAILY TELEGRAPH. J

[OWN COBBESI'ONDBKT —BY TELEGRAFH.]

Auckland, Last night. Bankruptcy. At the bankruptcy sitting of the Supreme Court to-day the discharge of Samuel Coomhes, draper, was opposed hy counsel oil behalf of the 'creditors. Coombes was examined at considerable length. His Honor said that he confessed that the case did not new seem as serious as at one time he thought it would do. It appeared the bankrupt had traded recklessly up till ISS.-j, J at which time he handed over his property to his principal creditors, and subsequently assigned his estate for the benefit of his creditors. In lieu of calling his creditors together, and frankly tolling them the state of his affairs, he had given the property to his principal creditors, and the result had been that a large proportion of the creditors found themselves left out. Although, takin*- into consideration the favorable recommendntion of his creditors, and also the fact that he had been prevented from making this application owing to the vacation, still the order of discharge would be suspended for six months. Water-Worms. A water consumer has left at the Star office for public inspection a glass bottle containing a worm about nine inches long, which was drawn from his water-tap on Saturday. It is not an ordinary earthworm, but similar to the long round worm so frequently found as a parasite in the stomachs of the inhabitants of Auckland; hence the impurity of the water supply, or very defective filtration, will probably account for the great prevalence of these parasites.

The Religious Trouble at Tonga,

The Star correspondent at Tonga says the recent attempt on the Premier's life has ended in the extermination of Wosleyanism in Tonga. Those who still remain adherents to the Rev. Mr Moulton, to the number of thirty-eight, were sent to Fiji by the Maloknla. A Haabai schooner and the Niatabutabu, schooner, were sent to Haapai and Vavau to take those who were left there—some six or seven, perhaps, in each place. At the present moment no Wesleyan native service is held throughout the Tongan Group. During the last year or so *he number of the Rev. Mr Moulion's adherents has not been more than eight hundred, including men, •women, and clnldren, and of that number not nwe than three hundred odd. could have been men; yet, at the recent trials, more than a hundred wese found implicated, and more than half were the Rev. Mr Moulton's college students. The Tongan Wesleyan College has been disbanded, and will never be allowed to be set up again. The number of soldiers still remaining is two hundred, one hundred from Haapui and one hundred from Vavau. Many of these will remain for some time yet, in consequenco of the attitude taken by many Europeans and the part they have assumed in this affair. About ten days ago the Government announced that martial law was at an end, and that the laws would be a"am strictly carried out. This has had the effect of increasing peace and quietness, and things are returning to their worked condition. In. the course of a few days the remaining prisoners will be tiled, but it is not thought there will be any more capital cases, but simply a trial of those who have been accomplices. A Fiji correspondent writes that on the'Tth inst., the schooner Malokula, belonging to the Native Governor of Haabai, arrived with forty-five Wesleyans, men, women, and children, who had been forcibly deported and sent to Fiji "by order of the King." They were fourteen days on the trip, and •when they arrived had exhausted food and water. What to do do with them seemed to puzzle Sir Charles Mitchell, and the captain of the vessel, a Tongau. There was no white man on board. He said his orders were to land them if he were permitted. If he were told to *ake they away, he should do so and land them at the first place he came to outside Fiji. This might have meant marooning them among hostile savages, and so, after they had been detained twenty-four hours on board, the Government's boats brought them on shore, and a more peaceful and respectable looking set of conspirators never yet disgraced the title. They can howl psalms with the lungs of a town bellman, and with no more respect for diatonic and chromatic intervals than has a ateam syren or a pig with its tail in a vice, fcut they don't appear to be able to conspire worth, a red cent. Sir Charles has taken them under his wing, aud means to charge Tonga with their maiiitonace. The Suva brought .twenty-nine more, aud another ecb-OQnei'., rf2tt> I?ttlao<*c>o<ro, arrived on Sunday (20th) with thirty-six others. ■