AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3206, 30 May 1873, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

A most melancholy and fatal occurrence happened at the Thames on the 30th ult. An infant, only twelve months old, son of

Henry Porrion, a miner, fell down a well sixteen feet deep. The well contained four feet of water. The mother had lost sight of the child just a minute or so. when, on looking down, she saw it struggling in the water. She immediately, and without a moment’s

hesitation, jumped in ; was stunned by the fall, and when found was dead. She had hcen suffocated in the water, and the child was found lying dead underneath her body. —lt is asserted by some of tbe local medical practitioners that there are more lunatics in Auckland, in proportion to population, than in any other part of New Zealand. No direct or satisfactory cause is assigned for what there is every reason to believe is a perfectly truthful statement There was a clean sheet at tbe Auckland Police Court on one day last week, but next morning eleven offenders, most of them “drunks,” appeared.—The statistics, just published, show that in th i Province of Auckland there are 10,175 acres of land last year broken up, and not under crop; 3,372 acres were sown with wheat, 4,337 in green oats, 1,865 acres for grain, and 216 for barley; for potatoes, 8.475 acres, and 128,427 acres m artificial grass. The number of holdings was 3,842. * The Auckland correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay' Herald says that some of the bitterest opponents of the present administration *bf Native affairs are men who, by underhand means, have repeatedly tried to force the opening to Ohinemuri, in order that their land - sharking schemes may succeed. The latest of those attempts was made last week, and like all the other efforts referred te, it vti a failure, and needed no record were it not evident that these miserable plots further postpone indefinitely tbe unlocking and con.

sequent settlement of Ohinemuri. It is not too much to say that but for the wonid-bf monopolists, the Native Office long ere thi? could have succeeded in filling that country with bona fide diggers. At present it is-wel l known that Native land agents and quasi oi ex-native officials thwart the Government at every turn, so far as lies in their p-,wdr. —A man named Alexander Oliver, has died from injuries received by being knocked down by a horseman in Quoenstrect, Auckland. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of “ accidental death,” adding a rider to the effect that seven miles an hour was too rapid a rate to either ride or drive within the City.—At Auckland, the other day, a sportsman named Little, fired at some birds ou the Kohimarama road, but missing the birds, he shot a Mr Astle, and wounded him. The law has to decide how far the unlucky sportsman was to blame.— Intelligence o£a fearful accident, which happened at Kokohinan, in the interior, near a station of the Native Contingent, came to hand on Saturday, May 3, (says the Herald). A boy, or young man (Maori), was swinging on the branch of a willow tree, which broke down with his weight, and the youth fell some distance towards the ground upon a manuka stick, described as some couple of inches in diameter, which staked him in the intestines, and, entering, broke off short, leaving the fragment sticking in.