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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 479, 24 July 1871, Page 2

Au inquest was held on Saturday afternoon at the Star Hotel, Karangahape Koad, upon the body of the unfortunate man Folheringham, who met his dcalh by boiug run over in the Kybei Pass Koud on Fridny morning. Several witnesses were examined, after which a verdict of " accidental death" was recorded ; and a rider was added, " Kequesting the Government to take steps to improve the road where the accident occurred." Tn connection with this matter wo might remark that it is somewhat singular that at the Grafton Koad meeting, on Friday, the Chairman said that unless something were speedily dono to this very spot, thero would probably be a fatal accident beforo long. At that very time, though he knew it not, iho fatal accident had taken place, and poor Fothoringbam laj dead. We have received a copy of the first number of the Australian Israelite, a sixpenny weekly periodical, supporting (as its name implies) tho interest* of the Jewish nation. The Israelite is got up in a mauner which would reflect credit upon any London firm of publishers, and contains a large amount of useful and interesting reading, and the editorial department is evidently conducted by minds of no ordinary abiSty. There was considerable talk and oxoitoinent of a " fishy" character yesterday amon<r'the traders and merchants on Daria-street" and other localities, whore the fish-trade is an important item. The temporary sensation was eausod by the telegraphies despatch of the morning, slating that the French Government would transport 4000 of the Paris Communistr, with their families, to New Caledonia. This latter is an island in tho South Pacific Ocean, near Tahiti. The milk in the cocoanut is here. San Francisco is rapidly getting control of tho trade of the Fiji Islands and tho increase of inhabitants by the arrival the Communists would throw into the commercial coffers of its merchants from 500 000 dollars to 1,000,000 dollars per year, the principal items being codfish and salmon, of which they—the Communists-are groat consumora. *-i>flW tfaHovmo Chronicle,