AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3154, 28 March 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Aizival of til© s.s. Hero.

The s.s. Hero has arrived. She brings the English Opera Company consisting of Misses Wangheim, Hand, Walton, Lennie, Leslie, E. Williams, and Nellie Robertson. Messrs Florence, Browning, Hodson, Crowthers, Sherwin, Professor Hughes, Frank Masted, Carl Yon Ritchtz, Mitchell, Wilson, Mac Lean, Le Couteur, and Pompei.

A fire broke out last night at Lilydale Nursery, One Tree Hill, which destroyed a stack of hay valued at £40. The owner, Mr Green, was partly insured, and the cause of tbe fire is unknown.

Sailed : May Queen, for London, with a cargo valued at £18,0C3.

The Premier is confined to his bed at Kawau.

Mr Cox, of Hamilton, formerly M.H.E., has sold out his interest to the Hon. Jas. Williamson, and remoTes to Canterbury.

Five race hsrses have arrived by the Hawea.

Young salmon are reported by the Maoris to be in the Upper Thames

At the Police Court to-day, Michael Dervan, hotel keeper, was fined 40s for Sunday trading.

Four boys, ranging from thirteen to seventeen years of age, have been arrested for till robbery. False keys and other housebreaking implements were found in their possession.

At the annual meeting of the Kuranui Hill United G.M.C., held to-day, the three retiring directors were re elected.

At the annual meeting of the Corby G.M.Co. the report stated that since February last the shareholders had received £8C33 in dividends, and there now remained £1193 12s 3d to be carried forward to next year. 735 tons had been, crushed during the year, yielding 4227 ounces melted gold, valued at £12,601.