AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3120, 17 February 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. On Sunday a yacht with Dr. Uaines, W. Flood, E. E. Isaacs, and two others left Motuihi for Auckland. They encountered a heavy squall, and ran for Brown's Island, where a Fijian in the yacht saw a man struggling in the water. The yacht picked him up. He could only utter the words "my comrades." Two heads were seen some distance above the crest of the waves The yacht headed for them, but owing to a squall and the tide could not get near them. Dr Haines pluckily took to a small dingey and fastened the men with lines and towed them to the yacht. The names of the men saved were Slator, Graves and Darrell.

A fire at Paton's farm, Papatoitoi, destroyed several stacks of wheat, value six or seven hundred pounds. It is supposed to have been caused by a spark from a threshing machine, which was working at the time. All efforts to extinguish the fire failed. Insured for four hundred pounds.

Another boat accident occurred yesterday. Four young men left in a boat for Lucas' Creek. The boat capsized in a squall. They swam ashore, a distance of a quarter of a mile, one dressed in a large overcoat. The boat was recovered.

The Chief Paul is arranging for a large meeting at Orakei on the twenty-fifth, in anticipation of the great King meeting which is to be held at Kopua about the twenty-fifth March.