AUCKLAND ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4543, 15 November 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND ITEMS.

'■•' ';■ ■!#" ■" • . ' ' ' ' ■ [Fbb Pbhss Association.] Native Affairs. A Virago Badly ScaredA Princely Giver. AUOKLAND, Nov. 15. Wabanui, feeling the heavy responsibility which he had taken upon himself at the recent meeting, when he assumed the whole burden of Kingism, and also the power and right to stop the tide of settlement if it so pleased him, has called a meeting of the oiOßt prominent ohiefs who elected tho first King. Potatari Potatu was eleoted by all the. great ohiefs of the southern portion j>£ -the North Island. Binoe the war, ,N a ?, large Dumber, of the tribes who oonqurr«s jn the election have seceded* and sold their lands, suoh as, the NgaturikiwA, .the Taupo, ajid Wanganui natives., Wabanui, however, .has decided to bring together as many as' possible of the ohiefs or their representatives who took part in the eleotion ; and it is surmised that he means to point out that they have deserted the King, and to say that if an arrangement is to be mado with the Europeans, it had better be dose with the consent, and at the instance of, all tkoto who took part in the election. Yesternight information was given to the polioe that Henry Geddea Hunter, whose wife is a boarding-house-keeper, attempted suicide by taking phosphorus. The police found the man lying on the verandah, with phosphorus shining on his lips ard fingers, while there was a severe gash on the top of his head. Emetics were applied, and he vomited freely. It subsequently transpired that Hunter had an altercation with his wife, who struck him over the head with a chairleg j and there is reason to believe that he smeared his face with phosphorus to make her believe he committed suicide. Mr J. T. MjKelvie, of London, who has already presepted several thousand pounds worth of works to the Auckland Mu«eum, purohased several art treasures at the Duke of Hamilton's sale, and has sent them to Auckland in the Bhips Loch tJw and looh Fleet. The gift comprises two pictures by Guido, and one by Stansfield, besides a oolleotion of fioman glass, marble, and antique articles found in recent explorations.