AUCKLAND NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 898, 17 May 1889, Page 27

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, May 10. The creditors of Graves Aickec, one of the

well-known EHerslie land syndicate, who filed petitions of insolvency some time ago, have recommended his immediate dischaige from bankruptcy. J. Wakefield, a lodger at the Imperial Hotel, leaped from a three-storey window of that building to the pavement, a distance of sixty feet, this morning. His left arm was broken, but otherwise ho was uninjured. At a meeting of tho Directors of tho New Zealand Stud Company Major George was appointed Chairman of the Board and also Managing Director. The other vacant seat of the Board was filled by the appointment of Mr A. G. Horton. Mr Geo. Cutts, of Canterbury, has been elected as manager at Sylvia Park Stud farm. In regard to the Tauranga School Committee embroglio, the legal advice obtained by the Board of Education states that a teacher of a publio school may hold office as member of a School Committee. Sydney Taiwhanga, M.H.R., was sued to-day at the Resident Magistrate’s Court for £2O 13s Id for bread supplied, and was ordered to pay ia three months. The Magistrate (Dr Giles) remarked, “ You are one of those who make laws for the whole Colony, and it does not look well for yon not to pay your baker’s bill.”