AUCKLAND.
This day. Messrs David Goldie, I). IT. Melvcnzie, and Samuel Luke, were to-day elected members of the Board of Education. Mrs Janet Bruce, a colonist since 1839, died yesterday. The Auckland Regatta Club has fixed the first prize for the next champion schooner race at £150 and a silver cup, and tile second prize at .£SO. The .schooner Signet, from Tonga, reports the occurrence of a severe hurricane at Vavau a fortnight ago. The Tongan schooner Tobamaloke was totally wrecked, cocoanut trees were blown down, and the native church at Ohipu and the teachers' house were carried away a considerable distance. The postmaster at Russell has received intimation from the postmaster at Whangaruru that somo wreckage had come on shore there with a part of a chain plate attached, apparently part of a scow. The body of the missing seaman Charles Baker, of the schooner Saxon, was found yesterday near the place where the body of Susan Duneen was found.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3641, 14 March 1883, Page 3
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161AUCKLAND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3641, 14 March 1883, Page 3
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