LATEST FROM AUCKLAND From our own Correspondent.)

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 36, 9 February 1884, Page 2

LATEST FROM AUCKLAND From our own Correspondent.)

ACCIDENT TO THIS AUCKLAND AGENT OF THIS "NEWS." Auckland, Last Night. PioOssor Payne gave a private display display of! his skill wifcli the rifle before a nninbci ol' momlxMs of tho Press and other gentlemen. The shooting of! apples from the head and coin from the hand was performed repeatedly with complete success. A slight accident, however, occurred on the thiid time of shotting the apple. Mr \V# 8. Pulford, manager of the Intercolonial Mews and Advei tiding Agem-p and agent for The Auoha News, agiced to stand with an apple on his head and did so with great coolness. Just as the shot was fired it is supposed he braced himself up a little, though not perceptibly resulting in the hill gi a/ing his scalp, and inflicting a nasty though not serious wound. The result of the tests established Payne's extraordinary skill as a marksman.

AUCKLAND SHAREMARKET. Sales, this day : Reuben Parr, 2s ; Imperial, 17s to 18*. Buyers, Success, 4s; Colonist, 5s ; Caledonian, 12s. A G is borne telegram states : There was a sharp shouk of eaithqiiake at 12.20 and a very severe one at 2.20 this morning 1 . The latter caused much alarm, as it rang the Jirebells and induced a feeling or nausea like seasickness. The shock lasted half a minute. At tho Boaid of Education meeting today, the question of the Parr scholarship and O'Donoghue's action came up upon a telegram from Parr's father. It was resolved to hear any statement Mr Pansenior may wish to make next week. At the Licencing nominations to-day a hsrge number of committemen were nominated to represent both Licensed victuallers t'nd teetotallers. A cablegram has hecn received from London to d iy intimating that the English

Urvfonviters have definitely refused to Day the risks held on the Steamship Triumph. The policies on the hull amount to £40,000, and on the Home freight (insurance IHno- effected on the round voyage) £10,000, making £50,000 Christchurch, Last Nijfht. In the match between Tasmania and Canterbury, the former made 227 in their fir-t innings. Cmte'bury thon took the wickets, and the score now stand at 54 for two wickets.