AUCKLAND.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 717, 4 July 1878, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

July 3. Mr. J. M. Dargaville has sold his timber business at Northern "YVairoa to the Auckland Union Sash and Door Company for L 25,000, but retains 1500 acres of freehold along the river banks (subject to the Company's timber rights), which will be cut up into small farms, and sold to bond fide settlers. Coaches will be laid on on Monday connecting the centre of the city with the railway terminus. Information obtained of the Pension Oflice here shows that L 40,000 is annually distributed by the Imperial Government to pensioners in the Colony. There are nearly 1200 pensioners. The railway authorities will rnn special trains to meet the Onehunga steamers. The rates will be reduced on coal and agricultural produce. Students' tickets to be half-price. Mr. Lawson estimates the cost of the central railway terminus in the city at L 70.000. The cutter Lethe went ashore at the Great Barrier oil a rock, and was afterwards beached. She is considerably damaged. The crew and cargo were saved. The vessel is insured in the South British for L2OO. Frank Gonez, who had been supposed to be lost in the cutter Mary, turned up to-day. He had pulled in a small dingy for 20 hours. In the Supreme Court, Alex. Daniels was sentenced to one year for stealing from the person. The trial of' Mrs. Major Croker, for obtaining goods by false pretences, has commenced.