NOTES FROM AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11396, 13 April 1899, Page 3

NOTES FROM AUCKLAND.

(Per United Press-Association.) AUCKLAND, April 17.

Mr Dillingham; American consul at' Auckland, states that he sent by^ the Hauroto to Samoa a number-of cables he received from the Secretary of State.of tiie United States and the Secretary of the Navy, United States,, to the American Consul-general and Admiral Kantz. He has cabled to the Rev. Mr Shaw, San Francisco, to break the news of the death of Lieutenant Lansdale to his wife, who resides there. He had only been married" 11 months.

Private letters state that the manager of the German plantation, arrested on a charge of alleged misleading information and sent as a. prisoner to H.M.S.; Tauranga, was subsequently released,. as -£he charge stated was .not supported by, evidence,... , .

■' The. place where the British and American -forces were ambushed is about tbe same place where a German force was ambuscaded in 1888, and lost 20 to '30 men and 30 wounded. Private letters state that the captain pf the German warship Falke warned the officers -of the expedition before starting of the risk in going out to the bush.

Two of the wounded—Corporal "Johu Foxworthy, of H:M.S. Royalist, and Henry Hunt, A.8., of H.M.S. Porpoise—'were brought on by the Alameda, and are in the Auckland Hospital.

. Private letters sta,te* that the officers and men who fell were buried in one grave, with the English and American flags over them, ■intertwined. The scone is stated to have been most impressive.