AUCKLAND.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 15 August 1873, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

A man named Eppwright was hanged recently in Auckland for murder. His " last dying speech and confession", was hawked through tho streets at a penny a copy almOßt before the Bentence of the law had been carried out ; and on the following Sunday one preacher in the city chose as the subject of his discourse, " tho sin and folly of hanging men," while another expatiated on "the murderer's contrition." A saw-mill has just commenced operations at Shortland. A survey of land at Te Aroha haß been completed against tho wishes of a section of the native claimants, aud a gathering of natives is to bo held to condemn the conduct of the surveyors in completing their work against their wishes. Our Tauranga telegram to-day (says the Evening Star, of tho Bth instaut) announces tho death of Philip Tnpsell, tho celebrated pakeha-Muori of Maketu. Tapsell has been associated with tho history of New Zealand from the firßt date of settlement, and his life was an eventful one. Anticipating his decease, he last year made preparations for the event by sending natives to bring two old cannons to be fixed near his grave. Brooms, similar to the American article, are now mude at Waiuku, near Auoklaud, from broom-corn grown in that neighbourhood.