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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 247, 24 October 1870, Page 2

The sale of the cargo of the Centaur advertised for to-morrow by Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co., has been postponed. _ The schooner Tauranga arrived m harbour this morning Te Kooti, with a few followers, is reported to be in the Whakat.ane district. It is reported that there will be no less than five candidates coming forward to represent t.he seat in tbe Assembly for the East Coas„ district. ... , , We believe the legal' appointments contemplated in consequence of the death of Mr. Crawford, Registrar of Deed?, have been made, and the departments vacated will be taken over by the new officers on the first of next mouth We understand that Mr. Theophilus Kisslin<r the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, v appointed Registrar of Deeds, and Mr Kin* in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, is to succeed Mr. Kissling as Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court. An assistant master is required for the Auckland Grammar School. The salary is at the rate of £150 per annum. Notice is given that William Swmton Laurie lias filed a declaration of his inability to meet his engagements.— Henry Pope intends to apply on Thursday next to the Supremo Court for a declaration of the complete execution of a deed of arrangement, filed on the 23th September last. Ov Wednesday last a party of men employe 1 in sinking a well-hole for water in Graham s paddock, near the foot of the hill between the Waio-Karaka and Karaka Creek, fell m with a seam of wash-dirt three feet tluck, at a depth of 12 feet from the surface. A claim of five men's ground was at once pegged out, after a prospect had been washed. The men, after ■ securing their title, constructed a sluice-box in Ihe Karaka Creek, at the foot of \ ickery s tail-race, and put through a few loads of dirt yesterday but" with what result has not yet been ascertained. The ground all round the ■ shaft wasvvoon pegged off by vanou.^parties^ i- ■-€ri^Obil^lls-^valxeir''lui?^^-Tri^'"prospects from the first shaft tested before expending any ' unnecessary labour on the ground.— Thames Evening Mail.