AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3143, 15 March 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

A German sailor named Tell was committed for trial this morning at the Police Court for larceny of £10 from a seaman on board the Ladybird, during the passage from Wellington to Auckland.

Six Maoris wera brought from Mongonui today for trial at the Supreme Court for being concerned in cattle stealing.

The natives at Orakei have been requested by Mr Sheehan to re nain a few days to accompany Sir George Grey to the Kingite meeting. -

Arrived: H.M.s gunboat (?) from Levula bringing later dates. The contract price for copra has been increased to fifteen pounds ten shillings. Captain Craig, of the cutter Lilly, dislocated his hip. A settler has been committed for trial at Viani B«y, for wounding one of his laborers. Thomas IJarman was drowned near Sega Toko by the upsetting of a boat. Captain Waite, late of the schooner Marion Keumi, has been convicted of inciting one of his boat's crew to shoot a native, and has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment with a fine of twenty-five pounds.

A meeting of the inhabitants resolved to ask the Legislature for a vote in aid of Fiji exhibits at the Sydney Exhibition.

A ■ waterlogged vessel, dismasted, supposed to be barque rigged and painted black and white, houses fore and aft, was sighted by the Saturnus near Levuka. Up to the present time very little damage has been done to the plantations at Bewa by the hurricanes. The hurricane season is considered to be nearly over. At a meeting at Bewa it was stated that the Clarence Biver sugar refining company were willing to spend some thousands in the erection of machinery in the Islands for sugar refining purposes.