AUCKLAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 665, 1 April 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

March 31. The schooner Hannah Rose, from Dunedin to Kaipara, sighted a wreck fourteen miles south by east off Cape Campbell. No human beings were seen on board and the wreck appeared to be a large vessel completely broken up. A Cabinet meeting will be held in Wellington on Sir George Grey's arrival re the Waimate question. Henry C. Richmond, the proprietor of the Nevada Hotel, for two charges of selling liquor on Sunday, was fined £10. A deputation, consisting of representatives of the different denominations of City West, headed by Mr. Firth, will wait on Dr. Wallis, M.H.R., to-day, to exact a pledge of support to secular education, and opposition to any tendency to revive the denominational system. If Dr. Wallis refuses such a pledge, he will probably be asked by the majority of his constituents to resign. At the Volunteer inspection last wet k, Major Morrow brought under the notice of Colonel Packe the fact that the rifles issued to the infantry companies in i Auckland are not Government tested rifles, and, therefore, inferior, preventing the Auckland volunteers accepting or issuing challenges to Southern volunteers, and causing many good shots to resign. Major Morrow stated that the Government have in store in Wellington two thousand stand of arms of a superior description, and corps recently formed are armed with these while old established corps are neglected. A complaint was also made by the Navals of the short supply of carbines. Colonel Packe said a supply of carbines had been ordered ■ from England. The athletic sports in aid of the Kaitangata relief fund were largely attended. The Kaitangata cup was won by Goodfellow ; time, 9f seconds. Four boys were charged at the Police Court this morning with breaking into a store and stealing goods. The eldest, named Cox, aged thirteen, was recently released after a term of imprisonment for fruit stealing. The evidence showed that he formed the gang of juvenile thievo with the aid of another boy in

the gang, also recently released from gaol. The magistrate sentenced Cox to four months' imprisonment and a whipping, another to two months, with a flogging, and the two others to six weeks without a flogging. The Bay of Islands Electoral Commission closed to-day. Mr. Bryce examined Lawlor with reference to the resignation of Mr. Williams, late Registration Officer. He said Mr. Williams received notice to resign on the day before the Revision Court sat, and asked witness's advice. He naid, " You had better obey orders." Witness also deposed that Captain Baker did not receive the appointment to appear and object until the evening of the day upon which the Court sat, and therefore too late. Mr. Bryce said the other evidence shewed that Baker actually attended. Mr. Bryce returns to Wellington on Wednesday.