AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2454, 28 December 1870, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

(FROM OREVILLe’S TELEGRAM COMPANY, rkuter’s agents.) December 5. There are several very unpleasant rumors flying about respecting alleged cases of death by cholera. A patient named M'Laughlin died recently in Auckland. The cause of death was pronounced by a medical gentleman as English cholera, although another said it was Asiatic. Last week, also, a child died, and yesterday morning the grandmother of the same child. Although there is no allegation that in the last two cases it was cholera, several very unpleasant rumois were afloat in the neighborhood. A meeting, under the auspices of the New Zealand Local Industry League, was held in the open air on Saturday, when about 200 people assembled. A proposition was moved that the tariff be altered to meet the views of the protectionists; and an amendment was moved that the tariff be abolished, and an income and property tax substituted. When put to the meeting, some dispute arose as to the majority, when a vote was a"ain demanded, and the chairman, as far as he was able to judge in consequence of the great confusion, gave the majority to the amendment. Mr Frissel and an armed party went and brought away all the articles left at his camp. Nothing had been taken, which proves that the Natives had not visited his camp after the murder of Mr Todd. Whitiora, from whose residence the murderers came, asked assistance from Mauuwhiri to carry on the work so well begun, but he answered that the sword was sheathed, and Jje would not break faith with the Government to assist him. He also wrote to Tapihana, of Kawhia, for assistance in carrying out his plans. A new Provincial Executive has been formed, with H. H. Lusk, Provincial Secretary, J. Shuhan, Provincial Solicitor, C. F. Mitchell, Secretary for Goldfields, and W. J. Hurst, without office. The half-caste who was wounded in the Waikato is in a fair way of recovering. The schomer Ocean Wave, of Lyttelton, in coming out of Mercury Bay with a cargo of timber for Napier, struck upon a sunken rock, and became water-logged. She was seen, and piloted back by the cutter Agnes. It is thought that she is not seriously injured. The crew and everything from the cabin were saved. December 7. The Crow Distillery was opened yesterday. Mr Heath, Inspector of New Zealand Distilleries, was present. He expressed himself highly pleased, and said it would compare most favorably with the Dunedin Distillery. The returns from the Thames Goldfield show an increase of 1,300 oz. for the month of November over October. The yield is daily gaining ground, and the number of payable claims is steadily increasing. A man named Edward Halcrowe, an old servant of the A.S.N. Company, whilst superintending the shipment of coals in the Auckland, at the Bay of Islands, fell into the hold and fractured his skull. He gradually sunk and expired on Sunday. December 8. By the Timaru, which arrived here yesterday, we leam of the total destruction by lire of the ship Malabar, of Gyeenqck. .She was a large iron ship, and was either abandoned or every living soul on boa-d had perished. The lire was still smouldering in tbe lower hold. All the woodwork had disappeared. The sea was carefully scanned, hut no sign of any boat could he soon, She was discovered on the 14tli October, about 40fl0 mjlps froip the Cape of Good Hope and j(}UO mbps from St Helena and about the game distance from Brazil. Should any boats have left her they may turn up at Brazil on account of the prevailing winds.