[PER PRESS AGENCY.] AUCKLAND. 18th March.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 372, 19 March 1879, Page 2

[PER PRESS AGENCY.] AUCKLAND. 18th March.

The Bay of Plenty Times gives additional particulars with reference to the attempt to raise the Taupo. Captain Worsp, in the diver's dress, gallantly descended the after hold to inspect the leak. He found the fracture extended about two feet six inches each way. A couple of flour bags were rolled up in blankets and laid on the spot, the wholo being covered with canvas and blankets. One end section of the large piping belonging to the big pump was then boarded over and placed upright on this, and iorced down on to it with a screwjack. This was found to act admirably, and the pumps were gaining rapidly on the water, though not in such a perfect manner as in Captain Worsp's judgment would have authorised his floating her there and then. Tin diver descended again to investigate, and discovered that the fracture was only partially covered, so the whole apparatus was yesterdaj taken down again and more flour bags and blankets laid down. A small contractor named Nelson Ireland was arrested to-day on a charge of committing a rape on his own daughter, aged six years The charge was laid by his wife. At a meeting of the creditors of G. W. Binney this afternoon a statement was read showing the liabilities at £4657; deficiency, £1594. He attributed his failure to the loss of the Geelong and to timber speculations. He offered 10s. in the £ Much sympathy was expressed with him by most of the creditors present, all but two being in favor of accepting the composition. Mr. Kisslinjr, of the Bank of New Zealand, proposed a complete assignment of the estate. Two creditor! offered a guarantee of 10s. The meeting adjourned till to-morrow. 19th March. The Herald ridicules the complaint of the Wellington papers against Sir George Grey for not waiting to receive Sir Hercules Robinson, and says that it is more important that he should meet Tawhiao at Kopua, as appointed. A large number of new applications to be placed on the Electoral Rolls have been made Some thieves broke into the house of a woman named Bradley and stole a cash-box containing £U. The City West school has been robbed of s bell and school requisites. At the Police Court this morning Nelson Ireland was charged with an attempted rape on his owa daughter, a child of 8 years of age. Sub-Inspector Purdie said it was one of the worst cases he had had to deal with. The prisoner was remanded, on the application of the police, until Friday. Geo. Patrick Dower, a boatman, applied tc the Supreme Court this morning for an ordei of discharge from his bankruptcy. The application was opposed, and in the faco of the untruthful statements made by the bankrupt, and his admission that he had recklessly made away with property, it was refused. Owing ta the wreck of the Goelonga collapse is likely to be caused in the timber trade at Whangape. Underwriters are refusing to take risks on steamers trading there, and these are the only craft that can cross the bar. Several thousand pounds worth of logs are lying there, The Bank of New Zealand refuses to accept J. W. Binney's composition of 10s in the £ till the estate has been examined.