AUCKLAND.
This day
The annual ratable value of the city of Auckland is £270,000, an increase of £13.3,000 over last year. The increase within the old city limits is £20,000. Mr Gulliver, late secretary of the Ponsouby highway district, but now united to the City Corporation, and who was engaged by the City Council to collect rates in the Ponsonby ward, states that yesterday morning ho went down to the wharf with £152 in rates in his pocket; that while there he was seized with a sudden vertigo, and nearly fell over, and that the pocket-book jerked out of his pocket into the water. The pocket-book has since been recovered, with only £42 therein.
Mr Cornish, of Whangarei, committed suicide yesterday by drowning himself in his house tank. He has been suffering from sunstroke.
A destructive fire occurred yesterday morning at Whangarei. Bell's store, Buckhurst's clothing establishment, Jackson's boarding-house, and Hanson's cook shop, were destroyed. All except Jackson's furniture were insured.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3610, 6 February 1883, Page 3
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