AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3103, 8 June 1881, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

June 8. The following members of the Assembly left per train yesterday for Onchnnga in ordtr to take passage by the Hinemoa for Wellington : —Sir Grey, ?)r Wallis, and the Hon/?. F. A. Whltaker and Chamberla'n. Mr Swanson and tbe lion. Mr JDignan drove out. Mt ,; «riKeader Wood, J. E. Wbyte, and Colbeck, go by the Penguin on .Sunday, and Mr W. A. Murray by the Kingarooma. The freshes have brought down thousands of logs to the vavioud sawmills.

A son of Mr Garnett, of Auckland, fell from a timber raft at Wairoa cud was drowned.

Private advices state that Captain Erskine will probably succeed Commodore Wilson, in the command of the Australian station,

A number of irjformatiuns bave been kid against employers of female labor for breaches of the Act.

When the steamer Taiaroa was off Cape Colville on Monday forenoon a remarkable phenomenon was About a mile from Channel Island, and some thirty yards from the vessel, the water, for a space of eighty feet in diameter, was boiling up like a spring, throwing up mud, and discolouring the water. It had the appearance of being worked upon by a violent commotion underneath. Extending away for a great length from this centre was a yellow streak, the whole being not unlike the shape of a comet. Captain Anderson intends to give that vicinity a wide berth in future. The second mate of tbe Ringarooma, which passed the place about two hours after the Taiaroa, also noticed the abnormal condition of the water, and liked it so little that be kept the vessel away until he had communicated with his superior.

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Boots! Bootiful Boots !—Combs and Co with great pleasure announce the arrival of a full and complete assortment of Boots and Shoes in place of those lost in the Sir Donald. Our stock now consists of 3,000 pairs, all lands, and as we have marked them at our usual small profits one and all may re'y upon having the most complete and cheapest assortment of first-class boots to choose from in tho colony—Combs & Co., Cash Palace. Another most startling change of fashion. In consequence of cocknay sportsmen being so numerous this season, the pheasants no longer woar laUs. So says the Great Barnum. But take heart—we have just received another consignment* of ladies', maids', and children's seal hats and bonnets, which we offer at our former prices—3s, 3s 6d, 8s Gd, 10s Od to 37a Gd.—Combs & Co., Cash Palane