AUCKLAND ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4749, 20 July 1883, Page 3

AUCKLAND ITEMS.

[Psb Fbbbb Abbooiatiok.] AUCKLAND, JtJMr 19. At a meeting of tho Board of Governors of Auckland College to consider the Colonial •Secretary's letter re amended legislation to «nable the Governors to admit scholarship boys of primary schools to the institution, the folio wii> i? resolution wa§ carried :— " lhat the Colonial Secretary he informed that no amendment is required in the trust deed to -enable the trustees to make free scholars of Public Primary School boys when and so soon •a they are admitted ai toholari of the Grammar School, but if it is desired to found •oholarships of money value tome amendment trill beneoeeaary." The Freeeing Company pay Fisher and Co.'a iharebolders 25 per pent advance »n their paid-op capital, with interest at 7 per cent on the paid-up capital, payable July 1, 1884. i At the civil sessions of the Supreme Court, -in the «ace of -John Gibbonß v. Kaipara (Jteam Navigation Company, claim £2000 damages for having his foot torn off by the steamer's li&wter, the jury awarded £700. ATJOKLAfID, Jtot 20. At the Supreme Court the jury awarded John Gibbons £700 damages against the Kaipaza Shipping Company for the lots of a leg by a line thrown from obo of the Company's steamers curling round it, while the plaintiff was a ipastenger aboard. At the City Council last sight the Mayor «trongly condemned Councillor Devqre for issuing a circular to members of Parliament ' calculated lo imperil the City Loan Bill, which has been approved by a poll of the ratepayers . The .parishioners of All Saints' Anglican «hurch, now vacant, have passed a resolution condemning the present system by which Anglican clergy men may leave a ohuroh at 4bree months' notice, while the parishioners have no means of getting rid of bun. They have urged the nominators to insist, in any .nomination -of a new clergyman, on a clause providing that tho agreement shall -only be for leven years. The Bey Mr Whyttock, recently returned from Dnnedin, has been appointed aseistant to the Ber Thomas Bpurgeon in the Baptist here; and the Bey Mr Glatt, of West Melbourne, has been cabled for, to supply Mr Spargeon's pulpit while he jces en a holiday to Australia.