LATEST AUCKLAND TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 240, 16 July 1872, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND TELEGRAMS

. ■ „ Per New Zealand Press Association. 0 SUPREME COURT. FERGUSON BROUGHT UP AND REMANDED. SICKNESS AMONGST THE NATIVES. AUCKLAND. Monday. Malcolm McGregor died at the Hospital early this morning. There are no fresh cases of smallpox reported. In the (Supreme Court to-day the case of Manners against the Caledonian Company was heard.

This was a claim for £3OO damages, being the value of two shares wrongly removed from him in the company’s register. The case was connected with the absconding sharebroker Bayless. A verdict was given for the plaintiff for £228. The case of Williams v. Messenger for non-transfer of shares in the Thames Company, in which damages were laid at £250, was not concluded to-day. Ferguson, the sharebroker, was charged at the Police Court this morning with complicity in the Green Harp swindle, and was remanded until Saturday next, bail being allowed, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £IOO each.

A new disease has appeared amongst the Arawa natives on the East Coast, inland from Maketu. Those who are seized with it die in a few hours, after the attack, the bodies turning quite black. Mr Von der Heyde has received the following telegram from Kaye, at Wellington :—“ I did not state to Dr B aimer that I was aware of the existence of small-pox on board of Nebraska as is reported in the *' Herald.” It is only an assumption on the part of the newspapers.” Caledonian shares have sold at £25. * Per Greville Si Co.’s Express lueuters Agents.) AUCKLAND. The Court refused the return of Ferguson’s books, papers, &c. Charters, on a charge ot forgery on the Bank of New Zealand, was remanded until Wednesday. The inquiry into the causes of the wreck of the Harriet King is proceeding. 'The sharemarket is dull. The Lyttelton barque Jobi’a sailed yesterday for Newcastle, without a pilot. During the night a stron : northeasterly gale set in. The vessel struck the Rangitoto reef, and knocked away her forefoot. tSlie had to put hack to port, leaking badly. She will discharge her ballast, and wait for repairs. Sailed—Onward, for Lyttelton. Arrived—Strathnavar, from Dunedin. The Luna left for the South yesterday.