AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 81, 28 July 1877, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

'::'■■:■ : : ./.*!r-v;-i^ ; -.;' ;';;;:. Wednesday. . Judge Gillies to-day, m an appeal- : case, determined that the ommission oE the words, "with the. advice and cqn-,-sent,.of, Execu]trve. : ; ( the ; } Council," ■'m proclamation eoiniifrfohng%ighw4y^ districts, and_ prevented them frotn re-^' covering .in-; Cjouit., He reversed /thie; judgment- in'' favor of the highway. ■ boards; 'for -rates, giveir'irr the Court jfeelow. ; ;.;' The: .decisions : 'aifects the l majority of highway r districts thrdugtiouf the provinciar district ' ' ; - . A little fnamod Litten was bulged ;t6-death f in^a country" district by x i.^pproabhing: tck) ' near : av bonfire of rubbish. .Her^ clothes were" burned, com>pfefely%ff thelowef*' limbs. : >;■ ; ' •'. The ppiso^iiig >at_ ;Eptoraa occuirred; under the following circumstances .:— - Last Tuesday a fowl was' cooked for. a sick. Maori.ichild,, who was too ill to eat it. The >fowl was left" m, an iron pot until^Siinday, when' it was eaten by a parj^J<tf ten persons! Duruigjhe, night r they?all felt ill; butj: thinking of.- itv f did ; riotiaskfor Eiiropeair ' assistance untUl^onday morning, .the.. ; 23rd^ - Tvlieh^lat Jad j 12 J yleais old;" wHo^ had partaken ©f the f oody died.] T ■died next Tii^ht;' The rest^'are now recovering, - 'thanks to the : of ' Captain CG-^^lair, who" sent : forsDp.; Walker and/his assistakt-surgeph, Mr Campbell. These gentlemen having ar- . rived f romi-Taupo, the patients are now under their icarei • liast^^ Satur.day, whilst Mr George Browni 'olpGiiborhejj /wjai^turning 6ff c the; boiling; water froiia '.'a.^painkiller bath, the back'of the cauldron gave'wavj.and, h*e ;slip'p'ed-.';ifi' :: -up\'to';hi'sV'iieck<!-' Being ' alone,' ; he : h|d ; sufficient presence of mind "itp i make his wajn as fast as possi^ ble into *he township. 'On being stripped of his cldthes'the greater portion "of his " 'skin- came- oft He isndwin a very eriti-' cal state; ■'' '•— i '"" : -,'.- "". ; ' : "1.---:: : .•"■"•