AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3322, 15 August 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night*

William Middleton and Sobert Mcc were committed for trial for breaking into Mary Burkes house during her absence at Wanganui, and stealing therefrom a quantity of goods. : With regard to the City Loan, a letter has been received from the manager of the National Bank to the effect that the Inspector and himself did not think it in the interest of the Corporation to forward bonds to London for sale until the new Loan Bill passed. It appeared the Council decided on the 22nd May to send the bonds Home? and on the sth August enquired at the bank whether they had been so forwarded, receiving the. above reply. An animated discussion ensued. The Mayor moved that the letter be acknowledged. Carried. ; The Licensed Victuallers have petitioned the City Council for a reduction of license fees to the Southern scale, and a-i release of the obligation to burn a light all night. The petitioners were referred ! to the General Assembly. ' ' t The quarterly meeting of the Working -i Men's Club shewed that the amount of receipts over expenditure to be £70. Sailed: Taiaroa. Passenger, for Grey*, mouth, C. Walter. Schooner Midge, for New Caledonia, barquentine Malay for Sydney. Arrived: Flirt from Oamaru. Sailed: Albatross from Thames for Mercury Bay and Napier. ' " Blakey, the Mayor of Onehnnga, has been solicited to contest Onehunga against O'Horke us a Grey candidate. He asked time for reply. r The late Mr Weston bequeaths J6ICO j each to the Parnell Orphan Home, and Auckland Dispensary, also to St. Matthew's, St. Mark's, and St. Andrew's; Episcopalian Churches. :: '. A woman was fined today for drunkenness. She was seventy years old, and said she had taken her beer for; 50 years and hoped to drain many a barrel yet. A new weekly journal ia anounced in the Greyite interest, viz., The Lantern.