AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3352, 19 September 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night.

The Pretty Jane's price was £3300. She was docked to-day, and proceeds to Levuka shortly in charge of Capt. Philips and Hunter, representative of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company.

The Loan and Mercantile Company hare received seven ten guinea silver cups to be offered for competition to pastoral societies in each provincial district for an improved breed of sheep and belter quality of wool.

In reply to Government's enquiry about the Volunteer uniform, the Auckland Volunteer Engineers instructed the Capt. to reply that the Engineers were using the uniform of the Engineers of the Line, and desired to stick to it; also expressing a wish that the Engineers of the colony be formed into one regiment.

The cases against the Captain of the Minister of Marine, dismissed by the B.M. for want of jurisdiction, will come on for hearing at the Police Court, the proceedings having been taken in a summary way immediately after the Magistrate's decision.

Capt. Trayte, the well known Island trader, and his chief officer, Thomas Henry Payne, and John Smith, a rigger, were apprehended by Detectire Jeffery on a charge of breaking into Messrs Kumer and Company's store, Fort street, and stealing therefrom a quantity of tobacco. It appears that the police seized about 601bs of tobacco at the house of Smith, in Freeman's Bay, and he admitted to the officers that it was obtained from Capt. Trayte.

D. E. Brewster, purser P.M.S. Co's City of Sydney, was married to-day at St. Paul's to Miss Rose Osborne, the Eer. C. M. Nelson officiating. The bride was giren away by Mr Chaplin. The. happy' event did not disturb the arrangements of the Company, and Mrs Brewster appeared at the Theatre tonight in a character in " Pygmalion and Galatea."

A party will shortly inspect the steamer Taupo preparatory to commencing fresh operations on behalf of a new company for raising her.