Auckland News

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VI, Issue 1812, 12 December 1906, Page 2

Auckland News

Return of Cecilia Staunton Chairmanship of the Stock Exchangs New Zealand Insurance Losses in San Francisco Awkward Experience in Calliope Dock Dealli of Mr Hugh Campbell :i >i Special to Daily Telegraph. Auokland, this day. Madame Cecilia Stauntvn, f.rimrly a Well-known heel vocalist, has ratiirnod EngUnd on a vh>, and will give oonoevts hew, Mr G. A. Buttle has Inen ro-elocted On •irman of iho Auckland Stock Exoliwgp, Lyiia Sootl, a widow, rhtod to Mr. Michail', hotel hooper, Onchunga, <]i>d suddenly yos'erdiy, An ioqnest was held, and a velvet rcturucd that death was duo to natural oauses. The Now Zealand Insnranco Company annonnoes that i!s total losses in the San Francisco fira will not exoced £285,000. Tho Auoklacd Savings Bank has takon "P f O,OOO worth of Auckland Harbour Board's 4} ptr cent. drbsntuwe. _ David Roberts, pointer, whita engaged inside the paddle-box of the p,j, Wakatow. wm badly jambo-1 through a midden ravolotion of the paddle wheel. Hugh Campbell, the well-known barristsr nnd solioiM', and member of the firm of Bussell and Campbell, died yesterday. About two years ego Mr Campbell had the misfortune to meet with a di-ttessing acoidcnt, He cn'orod the strong room whon thegas wastmncion. S rikingalight vomited in anixplosion, as the result of whioh Mr Onuipbcll hod all the hair burned off his f<iot. Ho never fccmed to thoroughly recover from tho nervous shook, end although he visited Eoropc.his nervous system gave way, Deceased leavos a widow, formerly Miss Barstow, Tho Hon, Mr. McGowau says that the Government has authorised tho High OouniMiiomi' to grant assisted passages to domestic servants wishing to oomo out to the colony at tho reduced rats provided under the scheme adopted some time ago; whioh means that young women would h»vc to pay £lO to get to the colony, A youth named Claude Marmont has boon arrested on a oharge of indeoently assaulting a little girl aged 6 year?. It is alleged that tho aeousod drove the little girl lo a houao in Sussex-street, whioh was partly burned. There it was alloged he iadocontly assanlted her, and then told her to go home but not to say anything about what had happened, A suegeation having oome • from the Coroman<lel County Counoll and a resident of that town lor jthe purchaeo of 528 acres at Matamai, the property of the Coromandd Freohold Proprietory (now in liquidation) for inoluaiou in the goldßeld, tho Government replied in effeot that the laud in question was plaood under offer to it, but the prioe name! proven'ed any bargain being clinched.