THE NORTH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2795, 1 February 1872, Page 3

THE NORTH.

Mr Sheehan is said to be the favorite candidate for the Rodney seat in the House of Representatives vacated by the resignation of Mr Farnall, Steps are being taken in Auckland to work a seam of coal recently discovered near the Frith of Thames, and supply the Thames goldfield. Nearly all the wells in Auckland and Onehunga are dried up, and great inconvenience is felt through the difficulty of obtaining water. At the breaking up for the Christmas holidays of Mr Pennall’s academy at Auckland, a very handsomely-bound Bible was awarded to William Turner for reciting 6717 verses of the New Testament! A farewell address was presented by the Auckland Catholics to the Rev, Father ■fonay of the Waikato’district previous to his departure for France. The address was signed by over 200 of the principal settlers in the province. At the Nelson Lunatic Asylum the other day, an inquiry was held by the Visiting Justices respecting the ill-treatment of a lunatic by one of the warders, who had inflicted one or two severe blows with a poker. The defence was that the lunatic had attacked him, and that the poker was used in self-defence; but the justices were of opinion that 33 ther.e >yeve jhrep warders in the establishment, the man was not justified in resorting to such violent means, and consequently recommended that be should be dismissed—a recommendation that was at once acted upon. The Wanganui Chronicle has the following benevolent remarks respecting one of its townsmen : “We learn that Mr F. H. Cooper has left Wanganui with the intention of practising his profession in Auckland. He has done so amid the plaudits of nearly all the Majors of the place, and wc suppose of the whole rank and tile of the thirty or ‘forty’ who are always ready to 'do the atpiable 1 to distinguished people, from a Governor down to an attorney. Mr Cooper has also got an address certifying to his many gifts and graces—a fact which, whatever else it indicates, may well entitle the least worthy of us not to despair of yet obtaining an honor of this kind, For ourselves —speaking nop in the interests of a few individuals, but ip that of the public at large—wo are bound to say of Mr Cooper’s connection with Wanganui that nothing has become him so well as his leaving it.”