AUCKLAND.
October 17.
Alfred Sparkes, tbe third mate of tbe barque Glenlora, at present loading wool at Wellington, was arrested here yesternight on a charge of desertion. A fire broke out on board the barque Loch Awe yesterday, but it was extinguished without much damage being done. Mr Warwick Weston, Inspctor of the South British Insurance Company, arrived by the mail steamer Australia, after two years' absence in America and Europe. The session of the Auckland Diocesan Synod commenced yesterday, when Bishop Cowie delivered an exhaustive address. Mr J. B. Gaylord, advance agent for Barnum, was a through passenger by the Australia to Sydney. The great showman has conceived a project of forming a congress of nations, consisting of representatives of all savage and uncivilised races on the face of the eartb, and Mi Gaylord's business is to appoint an agent in each centre for procuring these human curios, besides keeping a look out for animated monstrosities and people of extraordinary powers or peculiarities.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3518, 17 October 1882, Page 3
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