AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10900, 6 September 1897, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.

. <>■•- . ..■•.. (Fbom Oub'Oits Correspondent.) , Auckland, September 4-. Witioria, onß o! the fighting generals of the rebel' Maoris. afc Eingiriri, is dead. A great tangi is being held at King Mahnta's settlement opposite Hiintly. '-,'*■ Mr Justice Conolly, in sentencing Charles West, h&d Chief Detective Grace called, who said that he had known prisoner for a couple of years. He cautioned him 12 months ago on the way be was living. ~'Hiß Honor, addressing tha prisoner, said that this was a case in which he was determined to make r.n example. He had occasion to comment a few days previously on the fact that respectable people could not venture out at nighfe without being molested. The prosecutor looked sin elderly man, but ho was active, and this the prisoner evidently did not reckon on. He believed that there were several auch as the prisoner who stopped people, waylaid them, and robbed them. The sentsuce of the court would be three years' imprisonment, with hard labour. : Building operations are very brisk, especially, in building or enlarging business premises. Mesars Sargood, Son, and Ewen have just completed an extension of their warehouses with atterationsinvolviDg at; expenditure of over £5000. Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co. hava expended a like amount in enlarging their free and bonded i stores, and Messrs BucJjland and Son-'arebuild-I iug nsw hoi-3e asleyards ab an expenditure of several thousand pounds, while a number of smaller contracts are in hand. ,\ His Excellency Admiral Bridge was comtnunicated with in SydDey on the selection of H.M.S'. Minerva to replace the Orlando as the flagship on the Australian station. He said that ha had not received word officially, bufc ho considered the Minerva was the ship for the purpose, that had he been asksdto nominafcs the Orlando's successor the Siiriorva would have j been his choice. He supposed that she j would leave Portsmouth soon aft6r recom- ; missioning, and be out hero by the end of | the yoar. That she will prove eminently wall adapted for the duties of flagship he was perfectly satisfied. Asked with regard to any j arrangements for the departure of the Orlando, j and whether it was his intentiou to retorn i Homo by the Orlando, his Excellency remarked j that nothing bad been settled ; the Orlando would, of course, not leave before her success or i had arrived in Sydney. j