AUCKLAND,
This Day. The steamer Dorie lef t Hobart yesterday morning and is expected here on Monday next. A carpenter named James Jones broke his leg yesterday, by falling from a scaffold on Surrey Hill estate. TheTramway Coy., for the first week of running to Ponsonby carried 13,500 passengbrs, against 6,700 for the previous week, before the line was extended. The Oompany are making every endeavaur to meet the requirements of the increasing traffie. Last niglit a collision occurred between two cars in Hobson street, the driver of the up car was thrown off, severely bruised, and rendered insensible. The collision is attributed to the oarelessness of the driver, and the company will make strict enquiry Several young men in Auckland have determined to »o to Australia, with a view of taking service in the Colonial corps, to be raised for Soudan. Suprise has been expressed at the inactionof New Zealand Government, considering the great military assistance rendered this colony by the Imperial authorities during the Native war. It certainly would have been a graceful action on the part of the Ministry to have made an offer of troops for service in the Soudan.
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Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 64, 19 February 1885, Page 3
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194AUCKLAND, Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 64, 19 February 1885, Page 3
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