AUCKLAND.
This day.
Andrew Hoy, working at a sawmill in Coromandel, got his fingers cut off by the revolving saw.
The Board of Governor! of the Grammar School met to-day to consider the writ served by the Improvement Commissioners. As the questions discussed involved legal proceedings, reporters were excluded. In reply to a question, if the Crown grant of the reserve were set aside, to whom would the land revert, Mr Fen ton said the Crown.
A son of the late Rev John Crossley, formerly of the Waikato, was charged with the larceny of a lady's cloak at the Police Court to-day. He has been previously convicted of forgery.
Hutton and Spannix, a half caste of Taranaki, are to run a race for a hundred pounds. Ten pounds, as a deposit, has been paid. The race is fixed for the 10th of May. Any distance up to three hundred yards.
At a meeting of the creditors of W. S. Farnall today, the liabilities were stated as three thousand pounds. ; Two thousand fife hundred pounds are secured of this amount. Farnall put in as an asset a claim of fifteen hundred pounds against the Gorernment.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3173, 21 April 1879, Page 2
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194AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3173, 21 April 1879, Page 2
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