AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3318, 9 August 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

* Last night. ' Sailed : Barque Aberdeen, for Kaipara, to load timber for Dunedin or Timaru. Tole's address to the Eden electors is out. ■; -.■■':' :■■•■■• .. . : '' iw\i '■ The Rev. George Brown > left by thb Hero for Sydney to join the New Zealand Mission. .•-,■■■. ; The Waikato natives are endeavoring to get Major^Te Wheoro to 1 contest the' seat in Parliament with Wi Bapato about to be *acate4 by Hoane Nahjb,. ' ' \ t A. K. Taylor stands for Eden, Captain Colbeck for Marsden,; Cunningham (of Te Awamutu) for .Waipa. M •', i David Moss,, whose escapade with Southern bookmakers in Auckland' will be remembered, was sentenced to - years imprisonment at the Fiji Criminal Sessions for obtaining money on false pretences.; •; ..■•• .■■ < ';/.■■<.> :*: \~r,-i \-\ ■ • Steps are in progress for the formation of a company to purchase the steamer Taupo from Mr Winter; '' ; „ The Waste Lands Board refused a' a second time to reconsider its decision refusing Vesey Stewart's application for land for a third special settlement like the Katikati ones; and they resolved that until such: time as the Board wa% in a position to in some measure meet the requirements of people already living in the colony for lands, it would decline to consider any special settlement proposal. Re statement made in Wellington that the Electoral Bolls are behind hand, the Bolls for the Auckland Provincial District, were all printed "a week agbi r ' V

The claims of property: owners a^inst the, .Paruell = Borpuglj, through! supposed public • improvements, £1820, has} been settled for £900, thereby absorbing the whole year's rates. ' 'Seymour Ge6rge will be ,by BJoat for, Rodney,! In >he event of,'jA.i£j|e4 ■ Buckland to-day. declining to stand for Eden, Mr A. K. Tctylor, Tole's o|| oppQnent, will contestthe seat., ' ; j The Union Sash and Door Company having offered £75 per anipim to Govern^ 'inenfcibr-all rights to gum in the Tairua district, in, order , to. prevent injury to their) property from diggers' fires, it has been represented to Government that the: Company -desired ' a monopolyj arid to oust the gum diggers. The right is' iibw to be sold by public auction; the. area is

56iOGD acres, mostly bush^

The enquiry into the alleged cruelties by the Minister of Marine Captain commenced on Tuesday. The officers and crew are subpoenaed by the police. ■

i At the annual meeting of the Waikatb Steam ■ Navigation Company; the report shewed thatfc after writing off £1190 for depreciation, the net profit was £2143. O'Eorke has issued his address to the

electors dt Oriehunga..