LATEST FROM AUCKLAND. Auckland, Last Night.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1887, Page 2

LATEST FROM AUCKLAND. Auckland, Last Night.

AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. Mr Devore has boon re elected M tyor unO[jposo\l. At the Spring Exhibition of floitioultur.il Society, tlifi t-xlulo'h arc sli»litiy l.irt;er tUnn In^t \«*j»r. i'ljore is :i spli-nilid show of ruses and other lbwera, but v«ry littKj fruit.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. Colonel I \(»n Hied \ i ry suddenly in his hnth to-(i,iv . Tlio Colonel, who enjoyed robust health, io'-<e rather e<u!ier than u-u il this morniue", ntid pu-p-ired a enp •>£ tc.i lor his wile ; lie then went into bath room along with his ynurj>-<".t son. Claude, a b«>y some siX years of i.&e, who w.is allowed to oerf'oim his ablution- first While the lid was dieting, the C >lonel umlrc'^^t 1 *! ii'id prep. ucd t>> tako ids bath — he hud not been long in the water however when lie was seized \\ ilh a tit, and the lad in ahum lan and told hit* mother. Mrs Lyon hastened btck with him to the bath room, and svas just in time to witness her husband's death; —he wiw Mill in the bath his hand tlutte-ed leeMy an if in token of farewell, and with a m'^li he breathed his last. The doctor was un.iblo to assign cause but mclii il to think lh.it it was heart disease. Dorensed had not complained of ill health, -md c<'])-.eqiient!y had bad id need of inedie.il .id vice. lie leaves a wife, thioe sons and hmi daughters, three of the latter dii! glow ii up but unman iod.

PRODUCE MARKETS-Wholef-ulu t Butkr prune fiv«-h, 6*l, Frozen Meat Company 8 bbell brand, Bii ; cheese. »ood f.-ictoiy, 4-i to 4^ lb, cfij?s, Bti ; bacon and numb, pruvincinl, si' to Gil, hams 7*l to 84 .

COAL AT TAUHANGA. A seam of co.il li.is been found ;it Te Puke, and iroin pie^ont appearances is 'ikely ti> b^ »/(>ikal)!o. Tins is t!ie lir^t conl found in the district.