AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2302, 1 May 1875, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

The Auckland cricketers on Wednesday night agreed to play the Sydney team, and to co-operate with Otago and Canterbury in payment of expenses, but desired further information. Letters from the South state that Canterbury aud Otago are willing to contribute £150 each. The railway to Mercer is all but completed, and the contract to Ngar uawahia being rapidly pushed on. Mr. George Dacre has been appointed manager of the National Bank at Tauranga. ; One hundredweight of quartz from Ohincmuri has yielded four pennyweights. Measles and typhoid fever is on l he decline. A dozen patients discharged from hospital. Gratton McCabe, who committed suicide on 29th by jumping off a cliff in Hobson-street, was formerly a reporter in Auckland, and afterwards on the Wellington Advertiser. He also appeared on the stage in various parts of New Zealand. Ho had been in the asylum recently, the insanity being induced by drink. In the fall, besides internal injuries, he sustained fracture of the thigh and compound fracture of the elbow. McCabe was alive aud sensible when found, but died two hours afterwards. Burke, ex Captain of Fire Brigade, was discharged ut the Police Court. Tho last plate on the Auckland and Mercer Railway was laid on 2Uth. The Bauk of New Zealand half-yearly report shows nett profits to the amount of £4S,O.jS; balance last year, £13,010. A dividend declared of 10 per cent, and bonus of live. Balance carried forward, £10,875. The report was adopted. The Chairman, in moving the adaption of the report, referred iv terms of condemnation of the system introduced of paying a large interest on deposits, and said that it was calculated to divert money from legitimate channels, and would be injurious to the colony ; nnd a pinch would come which he desired that merchants would bear in mind was not brought about by that Bank. He also stated that many of the Brunches iv New Zealand were but Agencies, and not doing an active business.