Auckland News.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 306, 10 December 1884, Page 2

Auckland News.

[Own Correspondent.] Auckland, December 10. At a meeting yesterday of shareholders in the New Zealand Land and Mortgage Company, the chairman, Sir Frederick Whitaker, stated that the London Directors contemplated declaring a dividend of 7 ]?er cent, on the first year’s operations in February next. Daniel Tookey offers to supply the Harbor Board with a method to prevent the destructive ravages of the sea worm in. the timber at the Auckland wharves and other places. . l ookey says that aftei* numerous experiments he has succeeded in discovering a method by which those ravages may be prevented. Onediundred men are now engaged on the Calliope Dock works. The Anglo-New Zealander of Oct. 25, says that the Danish barque Union, of Ronne, was towed into Cowes on Oct. 20, waterlogged, with her hull considerably damaged, foremast, foretop-mast, bowsprit, jibboom, and sundry gear carried away,having been in collision with the new steamer Kaikoura belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Company at midnight on Oct. 19, when off Durleton Heads. The Kaikoura after leaving a boat with the barque proceeded to London. Capt. Crutchley, of the Kaikoura, attributed the collision to the barque improperly altering her helm.