AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3112, 7 February 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Thursday.

The secretary to the Auckland Working Men's Club, having reoeived a circular from the Wellington Club re Chinese labor, requested the Tarious trade societies to send delegates to a meeting. The delegates met last night, and concurred in Wellington memorial which will receive strong support here. This day. The race between the schooner Transit and the Torea has started. The latest Star pigeongram says the Transit is leading by fire hundred yards. Mr Gr. W. Binney reports flour, £10; oatmeal, £22; pearl barley, £21; bran, £6 10s; pollard, £5 10s; oats, 4s 6d to to 4s 8d: maize, none; wheat—local, 4s 6d to"4s 9d ; potatoes, 6s ; onions, penny; cheese (scarce) 8d; butter (market very bare), lOd to Is; hams and bacon in cloth, Bd. .

At a meeting of the United Pumping Association to-day, on the motion of Mr Morrin, a resolution was passed, "That a meeting of the Borough Council and County Council, the Prospecting Association, and all parties concerned be convened for Thursday next to consider means for continuing the Big.Pump." Mr Morrin expressed his opinion that rigorous retrenchment was necessary, though the mine has been better managed latterly. A. vote of thanks was passed to Mr G. Black, the manager.

At the Police Court to-day a man was brought up for the eleventh time on suspicion of being a deserter from the Dido. He has been in custody since November the fifteenth last, and repeatedly remanded. Mr Laishley appeared for defendant, and asked the Court to produce the authority for prisoner's detention. The Court said the prisoner was detained under a naval warrant. Mr Laishley demanded the production of the warrant, which the Court refused, though holding that it had the power to repeatedly remand. Mr Laishley contended the Court had no power under the Naval Discipline Act to remand, but only to hand over to a man-of-war, and pointed out that in Judge Johnston's list of Imperial statutes, and Curwin's book, the Naval Discipline Act, and tenth and eleventh Victoria, were not mentioned as in force in. this Colony. The Court held that it had general powers under the Mutiny Acts. Mr Laishley replied that the only power of remand was under sections fifty-five and eighteen of the Justices of the Peace Act, applying to indictable offences and summary convictions, and where the court itself had power of ultimate trial. The Judge took till Monday to consider.