AUCKLAND NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 870, 2 November 1888, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

[By Telegraph.]

1 (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, October 25. Mr H. Law, late Bank of New Zealand, manager at Adelaide, left for the South by the Tarawera at noon. Before leaving he left decisive instructions-with his solicitors, Messrs Heskethand Richmond, to prosecute the Bauk Committee for the lauguage made use of iu their report, and to prosecute the New Zealand Herald for the lauguage used by them in their article on 23rd instant. Damages in the first case are laid at £20,000, and in the second at €lO, dOO. Mr Law has arranged to return to Auckland at any time when his solicitors require his presence. The Hospital staff have presented Miss Crisp, the retiring Lady Superintendent, with an illuminated address and a silver salver and tea set on the occasion of her appi caching marriage. Consequent upon the settlement of the difficulty between the Seamen's Union and the Shipowners’ Association, the Jubilee Comp-ny, which was established iu opposition to the Northern Ste unship C-mpany is to be wound up. The Company has not proved a paying investment, the rates havI ing been fixed at too low a scale. Phe petition to the City Council from leaseholders in the An.-kland market reserve, praying for a reduction of rents, was referred to the Legal Committee for consideration. Auckland, October 26. A. 8.-any, of the Arch Hill ironworks, has completed an iron tower 30ft high, for the Cuvier Island lighthouse. It is iu three tiers, and the aggregate - weight exceeds 80 tons. This is the first work of the kind executed in the Colony, and is highly creditable to the local ironfounding industry. The work has been completed in four mouths, one month under the contract time, to the entire satisfaction of the Government Inspector of Works. Henry Casey and Joseph Fairweather pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to tiring at a kerosene tin on Surrey Hills estate. Each was fined £1 and costs. A ten-roomed house iu Nelson-street, owned by Mr P. Gleeson, and occupied by Mr Macdonald, au engineer, was destroyed by fire this morning. The insurance on the house destroyed by the Nelson-street fire is £350, in the Victoria Company. The furniture was uninsured. j At the Crown lands sale to-day sections at Waiuku and Titiranga were disposed of. -There was no great demand, and the total realised by the sale was £lOOl 10s. At the meeting of the Regatta Committee, called last night, only two persons attended. It is feared that the Anniversary Regatta may be allowed to lapse. The motion submitted to the Board of Education some time ago by Theo. Cooper, proposing a retrenchment in primary education to the extent of £75,000 per annum was again discussed by tbe Board to-day and referred to a Committee, who will report on tbe subject as early-as possible. S«me good-looking quartz is being exhibited at Hamilton. It was brought from a leader in the Waitaugi district, and it i 3 understood that the finder has entered into arrangements with a capitalist tQ work the reef. It is computed that the Jubilee Steamship Company have sunk nearly £4OOO in their competition with the Northern Company. Thu resolution passed by the City Council a short time ago, to dispense with the services of the stonebreakers, has been rescinded, and the men are to be retained iu thfr Council’s employ, being paid at tho Vate of 3s 3d per yard instead of 3s 6d %, formerly Au illiminated addressi l>as been presented by the employes at the Kopuru sawmills to Dr J. L. Campbell, who has sold the mills to the Kauri Timber- Company. Auckland, October 27. Mrs Biirhs, who was injured last week at the Mount Eden railway station, died last night. The City Council have resolved to bring into operation the rating clausesoftheßating Act, 1882, and Amendments. These deaf especially with ihe recovery of rates, making the occupier of premises | rimarily responsible, and after him the owner or mortgagee. Failing satisfaction of ito cl im the Council has the power to sell or lease tbe property upon which the rates are due. The Council will at once enforce the clauses in the collection of rates. Auckland, October 29. A Maori is in the Hospital in a critical state, the result of injuries sustained by him while a prisoner in Mount Eden Gaol. H» had a quarrel with a fellow-prisouer named Arthur Kirk while stone breaking, and the latter pushed the Maori into the quarry, causing rupture. Kirk was sentenced by the gaol authorities to seven days’ confinement on bread and water for this offeuce. ... A house in Sumuer-street, Fonsonby, owned by Mr Savory, aud occupied by Mr Ford, was destroy d by fire at 2 a.m. today. The adjoining house is damaged. The Insurance on the furniture was £IOO iu the New Zealand office. The insurance on Savory’s building cannot be ascertained, as the owner is absent The house adjoining, owned by Mr Rout, and occupied by Mr Hilditcb, was also destroyed. It was insured for £175 in the South British office. Ernest Driver, who injured himse f on the 14th inst., by diving into f- nr feet of water at the Saltwater Baths, died on Saturday from concussion of the brain. Bicbard Howarth, of Onehunga, was seriously injured on Saturday afternoon by falling from the front platform of a tramcar in Syu ouds-streef. He was rendered unconscious, and biood wat found to be oozing / from his ears. He was removed to the Hospital, and is progressing favourably. The dead body of a child was found on the beach, near Judge’s Bay, I’ainell, on Saturday afternoon. The body wi.B clothed in two calico gowns, wrapped in a woman’s petticoat, and tied in an old sugar bag. It bad evidently been in the water borne time, as decomposition bad set in. . t bad apparently drifted with tl>e tide, as it was found at high-water mark, 'there is no clue to tbe parents.