AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3146, 19 March 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

The Herald ridicules the complaint of the Wellington papers against Sir George Grey, for not waiting to receire Sir Hercules Eobinson, and says it is more important that he should meet Tawhiao at Kopua at the time appointed.

A large number of new applications to be placed on the rolls hare been received.

Thieves broke into the bouse of a woman named Bradley, and stole a cashbox containing fourteen pounds.

The City West School has been robbed of its bell and certain school requisites.

At the Police Court this morning Nelson Ireland was charged with attempted lape on his daughter, a child S years of age. Sub-Inspector Pardy said it was one of the worst cases lie had had to deal with. The prisoner was remanded on application of the police till Friday.

At the Supreme Court to-day in an application for leave to appeal in the civil case of Peekman v. Wren, heard in the Supreme Court, Judge Gillies said under the twenty-sixth section of the Act, under which the application was made, the applicant had not given due notice, but the Court had power to extend. (Cases cited.) The statute placed a restriction on the power of extension, but in this case sufficient reason had not been shown for granting such extension. Applicant could however, petition the Court of Appeal, or go on with his case with due notice, or accept judgment.

George Patrick Dower, a boatman, applied at the Supreme Court this morning for an order of discbarge from bankruptcy. The application was opposed, and in the face of untruthful statements made by the bankrupt, and his admission that he had recklessly made away with property, it was refused.

The^ wreck of the Geelong is likely to cause a collapse of the timber trade at Whangape, the underwriters refusing risks on steamers trading thither, which are the only craft that can cross the bar. Several thousand pprnds worth of logs are lying there.

The Bank of New Zealand refuses to accept G. W. Binney's composition of ten shillings in the pound until they have examined the estate.