AUCKLAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3490, 18 June 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

[SPBOIAIi TO TUB BXAB.T'; "L 7 C Vl ,\id Ehiria has teen committed for trial tore -ota ining money by false pretences from Mr« Me man, solicitor. • HeTOpwentedhim. m i? 3a <ne P lloWof Captain Bell. •T he etatement has been authoritatively ™ n "» by the Weisleyan Church^ Suthoiitfes tna fctl ie church was Insured in e the : Chdron, lne w: jice Company. Laymen strenuously °PI >ob 3d it, and stated that the insurance fund «Mn ever floated. °" 65 successful candidates at the teachers' *>* a » inations, Auckland, three pupils from to L A * oV nd Trriidng Institution passed. H,v c c lalt6r ' Misß.Uamson, of the Girls' § fl? a Sohool, is studying for the degree of fcb* a ex r Z:aland University. • vtv L B ? a ,°l ? fcyak of Eaßfc TaranaK wa? »; n. seated by his horse, and dragged along the ! * «i entangled with the stirrup. He is B , e) fiously irjm-cd. ■ . At the firafc meeting of the Wesloyßn Tern* :P' arance Society an address was delivered by *' le Eav Mr Morloy, and a Committee "wai *' looted.

Fiji letters report the loss of the cutter Ondine, formerly of Auckland, while floating the schooner Tubul Cain off one of fcbe reefs. Captain Eonsen WoJls and one man are missing. . . ... Tlie cutter Phamir, whioh straid-d at lakitu, has bcon blown in shore a oomplefca wrock. The oargo of timber has been saved. The vessel woe insured in the National Company for £IZO. The Governor's undress levee was largely attended.

The schooner Saxon has sailed for Merowy Bay to loiid timber for Lyttolton. lhe Herald czya: "We think it would pay some of our settlers handsomely to take a urn down to Canterbury to purchase draught horses, as that distriofc possesses some of the finest animals in the Colony, and as times are bad there just now with many of the -horse dealers, good bargains might be got for cash."