AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 25, 12 January 1878, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Tuesday. Dr. Somerville, the evangelist, and Mr Charles Bright, th'o free-thought lecturer, arrived by the Australia. Mr Bright gives three lectures here. Eleven ministers of the Primitive Methodist, connection arrived here by the Tau po, to attend the district meeting. Stephen Massett," the elocutionist,, reader, and im.norist, appeared last night at the Choral Hall to a crowded house. At a meeting of; the Waste Lands Board to-day it was stated that 300 applications had been received for confis-. eafced lands. • ■''••' At the Supreme Court Pat ride Carroll and Patrick O'Brjen, \vere each sen-

teuoed to one month, with bard labor, for robbery from James John Piggott m a brothel. James Ellis and Margaret Carroll were each sentenced to nine months for the same offence. James Mills, for horse stealing, was acquitted. A true bill was returned against H. S. Meyers for fraudulent bankruptcy. Wednesday. It is positively announced that .Mr Reader Wood resigns his seat for an extended visit to England. Mr F. J. Moss, and probably Mr Dargaville, will be candidates for the vacancy. At the meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company the c.hairman said the company had made steady progress during the year, but at the same time had experienced heavy marine losses. He would ask the shareholders to agree to the appointment of an inspector, who was at present engaged m the Southern districts. The receipts, including a I balance from last year, were £150,780, and the expenditure £126,103, including losses to the end of the half-year. The balance to the credit of profit and loss was £24,600. A dividend of 15 per cent, was declared, and a balance of £9677 carried forward. The premiums amounted to £83,500, and the L losses to £59,276. Appropriation for losses unpaid, £31,363. The report was adopted. The directors and auditors were re-elected. Mr Cooper, TJnder-Secretary, has returned; £34o, collected at Auckland towards the Indian Famine Fund, as the subscription is closed. At the Supreme Court, Rolfe and Speers were each sentenced..to twelve months for stealing jewellery belonging to a woman lying dead. Dr. Somerville commences his revival services at the thea ere to-morrow, . Bright lectures to-night.