AUCKLAND. 30th June.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND. 30th June.

Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Hobbs have received rotes of confidence at Mauku and Walroa Jouth. At the former place unanimous votes >f sympathy were passed with the Taranaki lettlcra in their present position, and requestng Messrs. Hobbs and Hamlin to uso their ufluence in Parliament for their relief. In the Dktrict Court to-day application was nude for a new trial in the great Ball case. A man named John Brodie Russell was fined arith the option of five months' imprisonment or four ca«e9 of window smashing in a drunken iprec on Saturday night. News has been received in town of the total wreck of the cutter the Three Brothers, on the jtreat Barrier Reef, during one of the recent jales. , A small schooner, the Mary, is also ashore it Coroiuandel. The owner, Mr. Keise* pro:eeded thence to-day, in order to see whether 10 could possibly get her offf This Day. At tha, Police Court yesterday, John Drake ivas sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for \ lorrowing money on the security of* a Crown grant entrusted to him for safe keeping. The prisoner is a vorv old settler. The news by the Meg Merrilles from Lovuka - ,3 unimportant. She reports that all the * ;oolies by ship Leonid as from Calcutta were landed ou the Island of J ampler, where tbey , had to undergo quarantine. Barracks already have been erected and every precaution taken to prevent the spread of small pox. The Glenelg, which arrived from Tauranga this morning, reports that during the recent gale the contractors for raising tha Taupa lowered her to the ground to prevent tha blocks'tmtnping holes iv her bottom. Another effort to raise her w«s made yesterday, when 3he was lifted twenty-four inches. *Tuo final attempt is to bo made to-dav.««hon the contractors expect to get her up «wUI get canvas on when she floats, and pump her out. Public opinion is much excited over th Ministerial rupture, but only Mr, Ballanoe' side of the question" appears in the morning Journal. • An M.A. degree will be conferred on St. Clair Tisdale in the Choral Hall by Judge* Gillies on Thursday. The ceremony is expected to be very imposing. * Stewart, Governmeflt Engineer, proceeds to Waikato in a few days to erect a house at Government expense for Rewi at Kihikihi.