AUCKLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 27 July 1872, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

[From our uws Correspondent.] ! July2.s„ It will be seen.bv telegraphic news from Wellington I that the "Board of Health have quarantined the Nej braska's passengers, who have been removed to Soauies' i Island, while the vessel has been allowed to proceed South. The wonder is that this step was. not ■ taken by ; the authorities here, as it was generally understood from . the passengers- who- landed that in Honolulu deaths amonsr the native population -were of far mors frequent ; occurrence than reported by the official organ; and I there were strong suspicions of. the existence of the disease amongst them- Ituleed s the captain fully expected having to undergo five-or six.days quarantine. L suppose nothing short of another half-dozen cases cropping ' up will have-the-desired eneet of causing-, that prompti- : tude to be exhibited here which is displayed both; in : Wellington and Sydney. " r ■ A committal to the Supreme Court has taken plane in : the case of Mark Sheehy, late mine-mannger of the : Green Harp. Counsel for the defence declined to-cross- ; examine, intimating that they reserved their defence. ' This morning Messrs Howe, O'Reilly. Sheehan, Cumi mmgs, Gleeson, Walsh and Ferguson (brotier) appeared ; in discharge o? their recognizances. The onus of the i charge has been shifted from Mr Hunt, and is laid by f Sergt.-Mkjor Pardy. The why or wherefore of this step ! I am not acquainted with., unless it be to relieve Mr. I Hunt of tr.e responsibility. Mr Hesketh. appeared for 1 the prosecution and Mr. Joy and Mr. Rees defended, i The evidence, so far as it has gone, is not Tery material, | a great deal of the time of the Court being taken up in \ discussing legal technicalities. The case stands ad- : journed. Public interest in the matter has apparently ■ died out, nor. c-aa it be. wondered at wlien the nature

!of the charge is considered. No one questions the , ! seriousness of it, but, viewed by the light of similar transactions, it is neither better nor worse than a score | of others which have never geentthe light of day, a view which, lam inclined.to ihiuk, will be taken by a jury, if ever it goes before one. A melancholy death by drowning occurred onTuesday, t off Grahamstown, bv which, three lives .were lost through j the upsetting of a dat-bottomed dingy.. A* family of , the name of Hyain, consisting of father, mother, and j three children, left Tapu Cr«ek to.visit some relations at Grah uivstown; when the dingy was suddenly upset < bv a gjist of wind The accident was observed troin the , wharf by Captain^Ellis, who. promptly rendered assist- t ;mce. The father, and cldbstTson clung to the bottom of ; the boat, and the-mother and two children were drifting out to-sea when picked up by Captain Ellis, who alter- | wards rescued the feither and son. The three former were dead, while the latter* were greatly, exhausted, and remained on- board the Golden- Crown under medicalJ advice. The-sad affair has cavtsed quite a feeling ol ( gloom. An inquest wai held. 1 S >me time back a freight company was started in : Auckland, the shares o£ which were readily floated. ; The idea has- been adopted also- in Wellington, with a capital of h tlf-a-million, and a desire hits been ; expressed to co-operate with Auckland Lt is proposed j that the same- agency at home should be appointed. There is now very little but that the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by Shaw, Saville & Co. iiv these waters is doomed, and not before it was necessary. The makings of a. pretty little quarrel' has comment;- d between the " Evening Star. and the Southern Cross." The Star accuses the Cross of open mendacity in pilfering the telegrams ot the former without acknowledgment, which the Cfoss does not denv in set terms, but holds up to ridicule the nonsensical character of the telegrams furnished.