AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1876, 4 October 1906, Page 4

AUCKLAND NEWS.

I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION Auckland, Inst night. 'l’lui Coeloms returns of Auckland for lho qn.rrlor ondod Ue|)tombor iJOili show thnt tho const liln'rd rtvonno totalled

.0.9(5,075, of which .C9BG was colltelod undor Ihn itoiptccul tronty, JGIBI HcJVJ under thu gjnonil tariff, mid i.'i1756 undor tho prcfirontinl tariff, This in on inotoaao of .C&lidi ovor tho corresponding quartor of

la-t your. Tbo amount oolleeted ns boor duty amounted to £4763, on incrooßo of £459 o\or tbo quarter of 1905. Tho amount collected ua gold duly for tbo quarter was £7750, tin inornuao i f £IOB3 ovor tho Btimo quarter cf Inst your. Tho total rcooipta Irotu till aourcoa for tho qu ittor jus*. oodod nmountcd to £201,095, aa oomparod with £196,042 for tbo aaino quarter of last yoar, au incroaao of £8053. When tbo forry atoauior Ivoatrcl waa approaching Stanley Buy at 10 30 laat night a tplash waa heard. A boat w»b lowered i and tbo body of a man found floating faco [ downwatda. ElToita to roatoro life woro unavailing. Tho man, whoso name is unknown, waa about 65 years of ago, with grey hair, and of medium build. Jubl bofoio tho splash ho was sotn to walk towards the otoin of tbo Keatro). A six roomed houso in Alfred atroet, Onohunga, owned by Tho. j . Condon, ot v o.ipicd by J. Saycra and Ilia two aonr, wot destroyed by firo last night. Sayrta wet awoke ;cd at 2 a m and found tbo bouai all■!mo. Ho esosped wi h bta boyo tbrougl a window. Ho dieoovorod ono of tho boji was missing, and, rushing back to th | bedroom through omoko ai d llimo, foun tbo youugo3t child had rctnrnid thort Questioned after hia socond rttouo, th boy etnted bo waa moro than half aalcej and did not know what ho wos doiDj Tbo boy’a feet woro soorchod, aud moat t ho hair singed cfl bia lioad.