AUCKLAND. June 14.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8002, 15 June 1894, Page 3

AUCKLAND. June 14.

A horse and trap owned by Arthur Newtoo, dairyman, backed over the wharf. The hono whs drowned. A child 18 months old, which was in the trap, was rescued by three spectators, who jumped into thu water and brought it ashore little the worso for its iraraerlioa. The charge of obstructing tho Opuataia sarrejr against a l*rge number of nuiret !■ proceeding in the Supreme Court. Kerei Kaitu said that he was simply carrying oat the orders of his chief in con* nection with the Opuataia. He did nob obstruct the police. Thia was entered aa * plea of not guilty. Among the passengers per the Mahinapua for the south are Sir Maurice O'Rorke and the Bishops of Nelson and Christ* church. At a meeting of members of (he Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Railway, and At which the Auckland members of tho Assembly were present, resolutions were carried : (1) That no time should ba lost in opening tip the land north of Auckland by roads and bridges, and do the same for settlement as has been done in other portions of the rolony. (2) That momben give every support and assistance to any legislation tending to further the interasts of the dairy industry in providing greater facilities for transit and stor•gt. (3) That the Chamber of Commerce cordially endorses the declaration of the Gorernmeut that it is their intention to preserve a strictly non-borrowing policy ; also, a resolution rt the North Island Trunk Railway, regretting so little has been done in the way of explorations and surveys to enable Parliament to come to a 6nal judgment on the best railway route to adopt. A second resolution, urging the members of the Auckland district to get complete direct road communication via tha West Coast, as recommended by tht Parliamentary Committee, farther was carried. Other resolutions wers for the opening up of native lands, the completion of the Rotorua Railway, and urging tho Auckland tnombers to •upport tha Vancouver mail service.