AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 46, 20 March 1878, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

B-idtty.. George Troopj publican,. oE Port Ahufiri,, suddeily levanted lajstr w,eek, leaving/ a* number of bis creditors to bewail his sudden departure. Ttreotyfi.ve of bis creditor.s. met to-day, repre-

senting £700 unsecured" liabilities; Darnsfield and Co; are let m for £1003, but a portion of that is secured by a bill of sale; It is -= supposed that Troop lias left Auckland, ■where, he was v seen last, for Sydney. 'His . creditors will attempt to re-introduce him m Napier to several dupes, who backed bills at his request for fifties. • -"■ Tuesday. The Uotorua has arrived from Sydney. Mr Higginson, o$ New Calodpnia, has issued a writ for £500 damages against the " Age i" for libel. The military establishment at Fremantie, Western Australia, is to be broken up. A Politioal Association has been formed m Adelaide to abolish free immigration and to reform the Upper House, Colonels Scratohley and Richardson have gone to Newcastle to carry out defensive measures. Burglaries have become most disagreeably frequent m Sydney. The barque Pacific Slope,' from New Zealand to Shanghai, had to put into Noumea,- New Caledonia, and discharge her-oargo, which had shifted. During the voyage the chief steward jumped overboard, and was drowned.