AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3420, 8 December 1879, Page 1

AUCKLAND.

Saturday. The dowa-txoddea ITorth det«miacd to resist the Property Tax. The inhabitants of the North of Auck- - land, suifering under a strong sense of past neglect, have, according to the Northern Advocate, formed a league to resist the payment of (lie Property Tax, unless justice be done them in the matter of public works. At one o'clock this morning an alarm of fire was rung out by fire-bells. It turned out to be gorse burning in Freeman's Bay, no doubt having been fired* by some roysterers on their road home.; The fire brigade and police were disgusted at their fruitless hunt, :<

■ Captain Payne's A Battery of Artillery have received a challenge from B Battery, Capt. Mair, of Dnnedin, to fire a carbine snatch. A lire broke out in the faniture shop of C. T. Ricketts, cabinet maker, Te Awamutu, but was got tinder. An ap- . prentice, Win. Cranshaw, had none to sleep, leafing his candle burning, and seteral bags of wool, which lay elote by in the apartment, were the first to ignite. The lad slept on, while the wool was burning furiously, and it was with some difficulty he was rescued. The Mayor informs the ftneamloyed that the JNewmarket railway workshops contract is to be gone on with as toon as funds are voted. The farmers and the railway contractors will absorb the floating labor in a month.