AUCKLAND NOTES.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2121, 21 October 1875, Page 2

AUCKLAND NOTES.

(from otjb special corhespondbni.)

Auckland, Wednesday.

The funeral of the late Mr A. Clarke, was very numerously attended yesterday afternoon. The principal merchants, country settlers and the citizens generally followed the remains to the cemetery grounds. A largo number of carriages

lined the procession bejfcween hijrsliitr residence and the graveyard* |;v?^ The Honorable Julius Yogel. A special to Auckland state 3 that Mr Bridges when lately exanjjned before the Financial Committee, stated' that the lateColonial Treasurer's (Mr Vogel's) private account was frequently overdrawn at tW Bank of New Zealand, and that when'it was so, he drew on the head office here for amounts ranging in extent from time to time. I» wonder what opinion outsiders will come to when such matters are known. " *> " -"-'k^"s*«*w Kerby's Case. ; This case has been going yonvon all the morning; ■■*■ The"Police Gourfc^ffd^bTOfc it is crowded, and some excitement apparent. "It is an ill wind that blows nobody good," hence the heavy run on" the Auckland hotel for '<nobblers'V amongst the many thirsty souls surround ing the Court. ; ' The iurkislt-SathSf .jes Are being very largely used at. present, and from what I can learn they have largely assisted, in restoring., four :.,,.ex*n tremcly bad cases of gout, rheumatism^ and sciatica. - Her Majesty's Opposition; Messrs Eolleston, Fitzherbert, Sheehan, and Sir George Grey, proceed"to Dunedin to be present at the banquet to" be given by the {citizens; to Messrs M^candreir^Beidf" and others, consequentfrjupon their approved conduct on, behalf of the,.province, during $h$ se^sio^ at .Wellington. TKg 1 affair a.gredt ;^|^.|^>|e(^ ment .is^'lookedl"u|(jil jas*'t|^!c6mmehce- S merit 'of thle comiiag 'politfcafiflmpaign, and in all probabilfty the leader of the Qpp.o.s.itiott^ill, announcerthe policy of bis party. '-"j 'i: st":'- '^ , V f; fj Separation of the North Island.

.1 was prejient_,the ojher evening at-the termination bjflthe second nigfttVdeWtf in one of our literary societies when tW question to be" 'decidWd^as^Siaiiff'ilie^ opinion of the meeting no member should be'returned for a constituency ifithe'P.rbr. vince of Auckland at the' .forVicptnin^ general election wtib:fs nbtr'a ple(lge id sup-s porter ofjnsular separation."sition was cawiea.ijamidst Tauranga K«Ji&?^'*^o' Judging from th^fdllowitfg Ee¥#ffct which I have been* permitted to make from a communication received here by a gentleman^:fnsm "S Taurarig¥,Wpolitical matters are beginnings to; iwDinteresting: —' Mr Wm. Kelly's* last trick, was bacL generalship, as it showed too much weakness. ■ NptwithstfDding ? *he occapioual soaping of the Bay of PlentyjTimes, his chance of re-election i 3 veryVsnfalE iTEiT exhibition which his- brother made oil himself when Lord O.sborne. l .was i iierejj was keenly felt, even by Mr Kelly's friends. The manner in which his servants manage to get fat Government contracts in the various places where his business is being carried' on, is now generally known; and with the Govern."™ ment support, Captain . Reed aijcj^ Mr .j. S. Macfarlane -in addition to] his divided support at Opotiki wilf compensate for the loss of votes which has followed his action in being so anxious to lessen the area of this province, and give a slice which he wished cut off to the Province of Napier. Colonel Haringtqn does not appear to be%very'popular.' .' .This, no doubt is attributable to the'personal? feeling which many of the bid mijitatjp settlers entertained towards him, at a. period when he had great power, and is supposed not to have acted upon" thatj admirable expression, " temper justice 1" with mercy.'' The real fighti in my opinion will be between Captain Morris and Mr Johnstone, ;of Gisborne. Both gentlemen have strong claims upon their resident fellow settlers, and either should make a useful member; certainly more independent than our present one.-?- Our? local' thunderer seeros sitting on 1 a^rail' at present, but it is the general belief that it will side with the nominee of Sir Donald McLean, no matter who he is. If so, it may be disappointed, as the Native Minister is likely after his. re-election to go away on 12 months leave of absence/ and possibly before his return he would find it necces-ary to be, looked upon.to use Mr Stafford's expression, as one of the rank and file of the Opposition.