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' "" . : (fbomoub own cobbespondent.) Auckland, Saturday. •There has been a steady downpour of rain all day. ■ The "glass-has .been as lo\v a5;28.70, and a storm is apprehended. An extraordinary meeting of'shareholders of the Sons of Freedom G.M. Co. was .held to-dayi—Mr C. J, Stone in the chair,—at which it was proposed. and passed " That the resolution passed, at the last meeting. for wihding-up! the company be confirmed. _ Mr H. N. Garland was appointed liquidator. . ' ; A -butcher boy, in Ponsonby, while riding with- a basket of! meat, fell, owing' to his horse stumbling, and was hurt severely.--".;
Arrived: Tho' Flirt, 1 brigantine, from Lyttelton. ■ >Mr Fenton, 8.M., denied to-day .on the Bench at the Police ..Court thai; Mr Cunningham, the clerk of the Court, had said he" sent a' special message to Mr .Cosgrave to sit and hear Kirby's case, a:id also denied that ho had himself offered to sit, and had been refused.
iTlie mail steamer leaves to morrow morning for Sydney. '. ; : (p£S PBESS AGEKCY.) • j : ,• ; • Gisbobne, Sunday. _ iOn Saturday, the ; first storm within' the recollection of the oldest inhabitants passed over Gisborne.' Buildings were unroofed, and in some cases blown to the ground. Scarcely a soul ventured out in the streets duriug the day. A. cutter, which was moored to a hietU tree on the river bank, tore it up by tho roots.' Other 'casualties are reported ;• feuces are' lying flat on the ground in all directions, and a number of drowned . cattle, sheep, ond pigs were seen floating down tho river. Paora Pukerakuka (a native), in trying to rescue his horse during the heavy fresh, was nearly, drowned. _ jA-man, who was recently imprisoned for biting two fingers off the hand of the arresting constable, and swallowing the same, has escaped from the lock-up across the river. ..The police are-trying to hunt him down. _ _ . A pugilistic encounter in European style, came off between Porle Prou and L. Hia, ■ajnotorioua Chinaman (lately imported), near Mungatau, for £25 a-side. The Chinaman was conquered, and has since left the district. ■
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Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2170, 11 October 1875, Page 3
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