AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3504, 29 September 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

September 29,

The Hon. Mr Dick to-morrow receives a deputation from the City Council and clergymen re the Contageous Diseases Act.

A company has been formed to work the plumbago mine at Coromandel with a capital of £15,000. An Auckland Meat Freezing Company i 3 also projected, with a capital of £50,000, to insure a fixed minimum market of value for cattle.

At a meeting of the Crown Lands Board yesterday, Mr C. Albino Simonsen, KM., a candidate of tbe Royal Forest Academy of Copenhagen, wrote offering his services to inspect the forest lands of the province with a view of submitting recommendations for the conservation and reproduction of the forests. He was willing to give his services free provided his mere expenses were paid. The Chairman said there was no doubt Simonsen's services could be utilised with very great advantage, but he thought the matter was one with which the Government alone could deal. It was resolved to forward the letter to the Government with a recommendation that some steps should be taken in the direction of forest conservation. Mr Shaw, of Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, claimed travelling expenses to and from Gisborne in order to attend an advertised land sale under the Board, which sale he found on his arrival to be postponed. It was decided to inform the applicant that the Board could not recognise any such claim, the principle being a dangerous one.

At a meeting of the clergy in the matter of the Contagious Diseases Act a motion was unanimously carried requesting the City Council to postpone the enforcement of the Act till legislation was introduced in the Assembly for making its provisions applicable to both sexes. All the denominations were represented, save the Catholics and Baptists.