SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2437, 6 October 1876, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

I (FEOM OUE OWN COEEESPONDENTS)

I -— | Auckland, Thursday. j ßen Turner, the oldest settler in Auckland, died at 10 o'clock last night. Six nionths ago ho caused a tombstone to be erected iu the Bemuera Churchyard, and he,will bo buried beneath it to-morrow, deceased was born at Worcester in 1776, and came out to Now Zealand in 1822, being wrecked at Chalky Inlet, near Stewart Island, whore ho settled as a whaler for'years. • Afterwards lie, came to Korarepa, where ho was chairman of the Vigilance Committee. He was 1 mainly instrumental in the capture of the Manuka murderer of the Eobertson family, and in 1845 he had all his property destroyed in Mono Hekes raid. He has resided in Auckland twenty years, whore ho has been known as a wealthy and eccentric colonist. iSailed: Tho 'Sam Mendel,' ship, for Melbourne. 'Peter Humphreys,bushman, was committed for trial for inciting a boy named George fc?mith to commit an unnatural offence., ' Mr De Liaa re-opens tho new theatre to-night with Mr Hall and wife in " The Gilded Age." Fresh summonses were applied for and granted in the Pousonby highway trustees' case. William Thorne appears this lime a? plaintiff. The case is fixed for Monday, 16th. inst. ; . ; Sharemarket.-—Sales: Union Beach, 60s; Ked Queen, 2s 9d. Buyers: Palmerston, 3s; Crown Princesses; Union Beach, 57s 6d; Bed Queen, 2s 6d. tellers i Palmerston,- 3s 3d ; Crown Princess, 6s; Waitekauri, 21s; Union, 9d; Bank of : England, 2s 41; Tairua, 19s; Qed Queen, 2s 9d. Couojiandel, 1 hursday. Blasoh's claim, a portion of the old Coronfandel Tunnel Company, crushcd '1 tons of stuff and SOlbs of specimens, for a yield of 68ozs melted gold.