YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 5083, 20 June 1879, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

For the establishment of .a free publio library at Auckland 728 ratepayers voted ; against it 91 Messrs Playdes, Nolan, and Burton, of Auckland, have been admitted to the bar by Judge Gillies, who admonished them upon the duty of keeping their clients' secrets and discouraging litigation. ; During the passage of the Rowena from Corpmandel to Auckland a man on board named Joseph Davies was seized with a fit,' and expired . almost instantaneously. He was on his way to Waikato to purchase a farm. He leaves a'widow and family in Coromandel.

An elderly man of dissipated habits named John Smith, formerly of Nelson, was found dead in Leven street, Wanganui. An inquest was held, and a verdict of "Died from fatty degeneration of the heart " returned. • made in Nelson.

In the Kinross case Mr Rees said he,had written to the Speaker of the Legislative Council asking permission for the Assistant Clerk to give evidence in the case, but as he had not received a reply the case would have to be adjourned.

Tho Titanic Steel and Iron Company obtained judgment in the Resident Magistrate's Court against a large number of shareholders in amounts varying from LlO toLISO.

': Mr Clark's engineering scheme for draining Auckland has been received.' The estimated cost is L36,0Q.0. ~ ' .' ■'•.■" ' Fever has broken out among the Natives of Waimea, Bay of Islands. ; TlieAuckland Press favorably review Mr Bryce's report on the Bay of Islands rollstuffing. " , . ; Tenders are to be immediately called for a' section of the Brunrier-Amberley railway, arid also, for the extension of the Foxhill and West Coast line. J

A Maori named Keramona has been killed in a Native quarrel ,at Canvastown,'near Blenheim.