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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 343, 14 February 1871, Page 2

It will be seen by advertisement elsewhere that the s.s. Lord Ashley will leave the wharf for Tauranga, Napier, and Southern Pores, to-morrow, at 8 p.m. The monthly inspection of the Artillery Volunteers wiil take place at 7 o'clock I his evening. The monthly inspection of the Navals will also take pxace this evening. Tenders are required by the City Board for the extension of the sewer in Albert-Btreet. The transfer books of the Caledonian Gold Mining Company will be olosed until noon, to-morrow, when a dividend of £5 per share will be payable. A meeting of creditors in the estate of Abel Fletcher was held yesterday, in the office of the official trustee. In consequence of no attendance the meeting was adjourned for a week . The meeting will be held at twelve o'clock noon on the 20th inst. We understand that Mr. John Sheehan will proceed to the Kaipara district on behalf of the Provincial Government, to make certain arrangements with regard to the Kaipara Railway. A call of two shillings and sixpence has been made in the Imperial Crown Lm^re Mining Company. The C"jn of 15 acres, which are of gold minine ->"°a 2rass- There is an excellent send in » , efCeMiafT 0'" ° " StaWe ' cowsheds < on _. .. '' 490 acres, at Awitu, with deep water frontA W>-- i re! s,,? six-roomed house on the proA nor; ( a i so stables, garden, stockyard py „ - ', , *es in grass. There is a large rur> be. ... ia, A f y? v,; f V4vedFARMof ■ *■<; were attacked at night m t> j by «*•-* by a former lover of the wife. E: " V/--them to their bed and then set flre to the house. The two victims were drawn from the flame 3 only when the husband was dead, and the wife was expiring. The poor woman disclosed the deed of horror in her last moments'. A seai'ch was immediately instituted for the inhuman fiend, but he had fled into the mountains.