AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3292, 10 July 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

' .This day. Supreme Court. . y

"The Supreme C,6urt was occupied this 'morning with a charge of cattle stealing from Tauranga against Fairfore Johnson; 'jWathah Brown, agent for Capt. Morris, 1 deposed that he had sold; the ox in question to a native named Tauroa, and be-

dieted it was th£ same/ but could not to accused"to.^jjje,fa^respectable Tau?oa,gavenevidenee to hating lost his bullock, but did not suspect Johnson. He would not have laid the information if he thought it would have* brought Johnson in trouble. The case is proceeding. "

A three-roomed cottage in Wakefield street, occupied by Constable Bist, of the Armed Constabulary, was burned down eafly this morning. The Constable was on duty at the station-house. Hist heard the alarm, and warned other members of the force, who ran to the- fire, and had to send word back that it was • Bist's own house. Bist loses everything. The house was owned by Mr Irvine, and was insured for fifty pounds in the New' Zealand office. , ■

The Chaplin-Osborne Company made if hit With Gilbert's Comedy^'Engaged." The conipaay is the most complete that has been in Auckland for a long time.

Mr Biriney reports that owing to bad weather business is almost at a complete standstill.. Flotin, £11.;,/bran, £6;; poljlard, £6 10s; oatmeal, £16 ; pearl barley, £7s ; ; oats, '2s 9d. There are; heatyistooks of maize. California, 4s; bags in Fiji, (?) 3»{6d; potatoes, £5 10s. Owing to the arrival of 300 tons from Launceatonj which will be sold by auction, pjayers are refusibff to. appreciate.- Cheese, 7|d ; hams and bacon;9d.';/ i; 5 , ;