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New Zealand Mail, Issue 772, 17 December 1886, Page 20

Colonel T. M. Haultain has been appointed Deputy Inspector of the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, vice Mr T. Macffarlane, deceased.

The property-tax is coming in better than in any previous year. It is estimated that about £30,000 was paid up to Monday evening. the tax only being due on Tuesday. It was reported on Monday that the establishment of Mr James McDowell, clothier, situated at tlie corner of Willis-street and Lambton-quay, had been broken into between the time the shop closed on Saturday night and yesterday morning, and that several suits of clothes, together with two portmanteaus, had been stolen. Strange to say the matter has not been reported to the By notification in the Gazette a free pardon is offered to any person, other than the principal offender, implicated in setting fire to the goods shed at Dunedin on the 4th inat., who shall give information leading to a conviction. A reward of £250 is also offered to anyone, other than the principal offender, who shall give the required information. , The large new shed m course of erection on No. 3 Tee of the Queen’s Wharf is expected to be finished by the end of January. The building, which is tobe known as the “F” shed, is 200 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 12 feet high. It will contain besides goods’ space, lumpers’ rooms, carpenters shop, lavatories and other conveniences. Mr Murdoch is the contractor. When this building is finished, it is understood that the old offices close to the new shed will be pulled down and new ones erected. Professor Leone Levi (says the Australian Times) holds more decided views on the subject of Imperial Federation than most people, but they are the reverse of favorable to the movement. In his opinion an Imperial Federation would prove both cumbrous and inconvenient both to the Mother Country and the colonies, and would inevitably lead to a quarrel, if not to open rupture. He appears to think it probable that Canada and Australia may follow the course taken by the United States of America and separate from Great Britain at no distant date. Nevertheless, he considers that the bond by which these territories are bound to England is one of golden threads, solid, yet most beneficial to all concerned.