AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3319, 12 August 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night.

At a meeting of the Auckland Begatta Club to-night for the revision of the rules, the financial condition of the club was shewn to be excellent: starting with a balance of £100 and four silver cups valued at £100, offered for various races. The Champion Schooner Race of 50 tons and upwards, which excited so much interest throughout the colony, will have a prize close on £150, besides a valuable sextant for the sailing .master. ' Rev. David Bruce is mentioned as a candidate for Eden. • ! Mr Me Minn meets his constituents at Te Awamutu on Saturday. A man named McMillan was arrested by the police..on the s.s. Hero when she called at Russell on her way to Sydney. . The Hinemoa arrived with the Auckland members in the afternoon: there was no special train ready, so they bussed or walked in promiscuously. Seymour George, and Captain Colbeck have presented handsome silver cups to the Whangarei Volunteers for competition. ;

At the half-yearly meeting of the Bay of Islands Coal Company, Mr J. C. Firth presided. The report shewed the halfyearly sales of coal to be 19,848 tons, the mail steamers using from 203 to 403 tons per month. One third of the new shares 666, were all disposed of, save 42. A resolution was passed authorising the issue of the second and third, and a dividend was declared at the rate of ten:per cent. Arrived: Schooner Helena, from Oamaru.

Mr Winter, it is stated, has gone to Syduey to get appliances to raise the steamer Taupo. Last night Detective Jeffery arrested Mark Pragg, on a warrant of the Sydney Bench, with stealing £60, the property of Mr Simmon*, dealer of Sydney. He was .identified by a photograph. It appears to be a case of elopement. Pragg was accompanied by Mrs Simmons and her child, and have lived together since their arrival in Auckland as Mr and Mrs Phillips. They arrived in the Tararua by her last trip from Sydney via Wellington, and are supposed to have been waiting an opportunity to leave for San Francisco by the mail boat. Pragg was aa omnibus driver in Sydney. He was brought up at the Police Court to-day and remanded for eight days, so that he may be handed over to a member of the Sydney Detective Force, who is expected to arrive by the mail boat in pursuit of the prisoner.

A defaulter was taken off the Hero for Sydney at Kussell. '".■,..■■■_", j