AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11397, 14 April 1899, Page 5

AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.

(From Oun Own Comiespondent.)

AUCKLAND, April 13,

Mr J. 11. Wibheford has loft for Sydney on a visit. It is his intention to inquire into matters relating to tho equipment of Sydney dock, which proposal it is known has already been brought under the notice of tho Admiralty.

Tho' Hon. A. J. Cadnmn" is expected to remain licer two or. threo weeks, and will visit Coronmudel and tlie Thames. He will address his constituents.

There was quite a Uilbertian touch in a case which cropped up in the Magistrate's. Court this morning. The position was certainly curious, not to say paradoxical. A legal manager sued 'for his salary, and at the same time, by virtue of his holding n power of attorney for the defendant, lie confessed judgment. Mr Wardcll, S.M., adjourned the case for the production of the power of attorney. Mr J. H. Dalton, of Auckland, lias received a letter from a friend at Samoa in which the i writer says, under date April 5:—"I have sent my mother and sister to Tutuila, 60 miles away, for safety, and all who can get are doing the same. The three lieutenants that were beheaded on Saturday. (April 1) were all members of our messtable, and we were only chaffing Freeman (of the Tauranga) at lunch time on his size as a target, and at 4 p.m. they were all no more. The Germans are all tiie cause of this. One never knows at what minute wo may be cleared out. Those of us who can are with the main guard in Apia,' and are fairly safe, but no one knows."

Mr William Leys, of tills city, has received a letter from Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State ..for the Colonies, thanking him for a copy of his lecture on old-age, pensions. It was published five years ago, and Mr Leys claims that it was on the lines he advocated that the present Old-age Pension Act of the colony is based.