AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3109, 4 February 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Arrived: The German man-of-war Ariadne, eight guns, Capt. Yon Werner, 250 men, 2100 indicated horse power, and 1309 tons burden from Apia, Samoa. She remains here two or three weeks and then returns to Samoa. She brings dates to twenty-fifth. The TaimuaandTaipula party aria endeavoring to overawe the Malietoa party, and a civil war is believed .to be imminent. They ha»e offered a position under Government to" the J hejacT 'oft the Malietoa party. Foreignersf are warned by the local press not to interfere! on the part of the Government for fear of exasperating the other side to bloodshed. Malietoa has been proclaimed King of Samoa, and Taimua has proclaimed him a rebel. The American General Bartlett has been asked by Taimua and Taiputo accept the position of It is believed he will accept. A frightful accident has just, happened at Holdship's Mills, Newton, to a boy named Alfred Bowles, aged thirteen. He was caught by the belt and entangled in the machinery. Both" legs are brblcen in sieVelal places, the right leg bejng,;coitnr. iPletely crushed and hanging by shreds of flesh.' He was removed to: the Hoipital in a state of utter collapse. -. f r Jt is believed he will noti live. . „.r J - . / The j insurances on $te( Clyde hull are £500, md cargo £360 in the South British; £225 in the New Zealand,"and £130lnihe Colonial. \ ■■■■■ :)] >:' :':--:'p ■' } •••:! The mail steamer Zeajandia arrived* at 2 p.m. She reports moderate weathjer, with, variable winds. Passengers—for Auckland, saloon:.] T. Gibson and wife, Mrs Macdonaid, Miss'Peaston, D. Gu;nn and,wife, Miss Gunn, -Eevi .^[Macrae, Messrs Waterlow, K. R, Harrison, Fred Phillips, T. W. Leys, W. Waddell, Earl, Shatlock, Jackson, Hewitt, Thomas, W. H. "Vines, May burn, H. Holmer, Coterill and wife, D. F. Boss and twenty steerage. .. • V.-

The Zealandia left Sydney on the 30th.