AUCKLAND

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 16 July 1872, Page 2

AUCKLAND

[From our own (. rirr.espontent.] July 12. The Luna left the Manukau for Wellington on Sunday, with Messrs. O'Rorke, \Yuiiamson, Taylor, O'.Veill. Sheehan, McLeod and Creighton, members of the General Assembly, as passengers. The small-pox cases at the hospital still occupy attention, ami ru.aours of fresh cases ai - e continually cropping up. Fortunately, on inquiry, they prove to be mere canards. Seymour is in a convalescent state, •while Mc* J regor is reported to be much worse, and fears are entertained for his recovery. The disease had arrired at its critical stage on Saturday, secondary fever having set in and the eruptions blackeniug on the face. Gardner, whose wife fell a victim to the infection, has opened his dining-rooms- for busiuess again in consequence of the contemptible meanness of the authorities, who. declined in any way to him for the loss he has sustained, while they presumed to control his actions. There is hUie doubt that Mrs Gardner has fallen a victim through the parsLnony of the Government, who failed to take the necessary steps which would have stamped out the infection on the first case developing itself. Instead of ordering the destruction of both house

and contents, aud placing the inmates in quarantine in some healthy locality, they merely intimated to the proprietor that he should close his premises to business for a time, which he did, at the sacrifice of it and the loss of his wife. What the authorities have failed to do in the shape of j recompense to Gardner, I think the community I should. It will be a standing disgrace if he is j al]o\ved to suffer an irretrievable loss 0f... this i % cure without scaur tf'presaion of sympathy and I assistance. It is very truly said that "charity j begins at home," but hero is a case in our midst i where the precept is forgotten, wbilc some sliort I time back a movement was started for relieving j the starving poor in Persia. . Apropos of small-[X)x, a case of sharp practice ; occurred oti Saturday. A stcreman obtained leave ' of absence for an hour to attend Dr. J. R. Nicholson, : public vaccinator, to undergo the ordeal, but, , owing to the numbers- present, it was just on the ' stroke of four o'clock when his turn came, at < which hour his public duties cease, when the i worthy doctor, with a largjj-heartedness which ■■ floes him credit, watch in hand, informed : the store man that it was four o'clock —no ! doubt to the second !—and that if he wished : to be vaccinated that day he would have to pay five shillings. There's philanthropy for you ! The i doctors are making a line harvest out of the ! pauic in the matter of sinall-pox. Several of ; thein are vaccinating at the rate of a hundred a day. One gentleman, who vaccinates from the heifer, had on Saturday four assistants helping him, and a Money-la b-r. "Itis an ill wind that , blows nobody good," and the breeze that j wafted the Nebraska to our shores will, no doubt, I be gratefully remembered by the faculty. | The blackguards who left Coromandcl for the ! Thames, -n-med with revolvers and bludgeons, with the view of inciting a fracas on the celebration of the )2 th of July were disappointed. No demonstration took place by the Orangemen beyond highly successful soirees held both in Grahams town and Auckland. Telegraphic reports state that the Hibernians returned to Coromandel much chagrined in consequence, and beyond two drunken tights everything parsed off well The Pout is, as usual, rampant on any idea it takes up. It has now gone into tits on tlie small-pox. ■Saturday's telegrams state that it has a strong article calling upon the Government to declare Auckland an infected port ; dreads danger from j the Maori population becoming infected ; recommends passengers from Luna and Wellington being placed in quarantine, and incomprehensibly proposes the postponement of the meeting of the Assemby ! The analogy I fail to see, A young man, named Lawrence Hanson, for* j warded from "Wanganui, was charged with uttering a forged cheque with intent to defraud Mr. George Godkin, of Drury. He was remanded until Wednesday next. An arrest has been made of a sbarebroker, named James Ferguson, charged with conspiracy | in connection with the (Jreen Harp. Bail was re- j fused. It is reported that another firm is more | deeply implicated, and its arrest on a similar ; charge pretty certain. If so, the public will have j a few revelations made iu connection with the . conduct of sharebroking business which will j astonish not a few of them. Public opinion is | pretty decided "S to the culpability of those brokers , who lent tacmselves in the alleged fr&ud, as it is i certain that it could not have been effected with- j out their assistance. If the prosecution of these j sharebrokers has no other effect, it will help to j chow the utter failure of the Sharebrokers' Act, j and the necessity of fresh legislation, besides : affording the satisfaction—a poor one -to their ; victims of letting them know "how they were done." j Dr. Cavr has successfully gulled the public during , the week. The honors in the art of humbug have ' been shared with him by an itinerant lecturer in , the market place, which had the effect of thinning j his attendance somewhat. j

The shavemarket is neither active, brisk, dull, (juiescent, nor any tiling eko, —it is simply in a state of collapse. Coromandel stock ia unsaleable, and Thames not inquired for. I am afraid that the place where brokers most do congregate -will know them no more unless a revival takes place soon. As significant of the times one of the " honorable" fraternity has hied his schedule. Cause of insolvency losses by the orecti Harp. It will surprise me if it does not form a standing 1; cause'' for a great many losses. The six original shareholders in the Green Harp charged with conspiracy on Saturday, were remanded 011 bail for a week. It is very doubtful if the charge can be substantiated. I presume so from the fact that in cases where it was clear'conspiracyhas taken place no attempt has ever been made to substantiate a similar charge. Bail was readily procured by them. One of the founders of the present police force system in New Zealand died at the Lunatic Asylum on Wednesday 7 last, Mr. W. Nixon Morton, who was a sub. under Mr. Brannigan. He was a smart and efficient officer. It is a singular coincidencc that both chief and subordinate should unhappily have suffered from the same affliction and become inmates of the same institution.