[PER PRESS AGENCY.] AUCKLAND. Ist April.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 384, 2 April 1879, Page 2

[PER PRESS AGENCY.] AUCKLAND. Ist April.

The Supreme Court criminal calendar is unusually heavy, but there are no serious cases. They consist of three cases of .larceny, three of indecent assault, three of horse-stealing, one of house-breaking, two stealing from the person, one of arson, and one of forgery. ' The committee who voluntarily gave their services in placing the new claims on the electoral roll have forwarded claims to the number of 1665, of whom 1532 are freeholders and leaseholders, and 133 lodgers. The committee will also endeavor to purify tbe roils. It is believed that the total new claims will amount to 2000. DaVid Wright, stonemason, aged 50, was killed by falling from a house near Pukekohe. He leaves a wife and nine children. The cause waa intemperance. The Registrar's returns for March showBirths, 30; marriages, 27; deaths, 23. A new sawmill has been started at Kohukou by a Wellington firm, and is working well. 2nd April. A writ against Mr. W. L. Rees. M.H.R., for £10,000 damages, at the suit of Mr. J. S. Macfarlane, M.H.R., as trustee in the estate of the late Captain Reid, has been issued and sent to Napier for service. The proceeds of the Kaitangata fund sports were £70, half being handed to the committee. Goodfellow, who paid the prizes and expenses, lost by the transaction. Private letters from Wellington state that Sir Hercules Robinson will probably be at to attend the native meeting in company with the Premier, as the Waikato chiefs desire to see their new ruler. Dr. Slade, the spiritualist, arrived by the Australia, en route for San Francisco. He was waited upon by some' admirers, and, at their request, held a meeting, went into a trance, and delivered a lengthy lecture. -The Inspector of Miners' Rights and, Business Licenses at the Thames is making, a raid on defaulters. ' . .' - A boat has been picked up off Wairoa Point, having left Auckland tea, days ago with a man ' and boy for Coromandel. It is believed that both are drowned.