AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3353, 20 September 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

*Ast night. Sailed: The brigantine Actire for Samoa. The barque Glimpse sails shortly for Kaipara, and loads timber for Timaru.

Nothing has been doing during the week of importance of a commercial character.

An important legal point cropped up in connection with the Highway Boards. The Grafton Boad Board left liabilities for the incoming Board, which anticipated two years income, including an overdraft from the National Bank. At a meeting of ratepayers the Chairman read Mr Tyler's opinion as follows :—" That the present Board is'i'nofc liable for the overdraft at the Bank (National). There was a misappropriation of the funds, for which the members of the Board might be held personally liable."

The Bank took the opinion of Hesketh and' Richmond, who came to the conclusion that the Board was liable. A resolution was carried unanimously recommending the Board to pay the liability as incurred in good faith, and the amount to be expended for the benefit of the district.

At a meeting of the Working Men's Club Mr B. Tonks was elected president;, and Captain Anderson vice-president.

At a meeting of the Auckland A Battery Lieut. Payne wait elected captain. Lieut. A. E. Isaacs, late of the Nixon Light Horse, was the opposing candidate. C. A. Tennant, late surgeon of E Baltery, Napier, was elected surgeon. The Education Board declined, on the report of Inspector O'Sullivan, to adopt Dr Bichardson's Temperance Works as a school text book, but would permit it in reference to libraries. The Waste Lands Board have decided to lay off for sale a township at Tologa Bay, East Coast. A Second "Warning. Edgecombe, the surveyor, and his party have again been ordered off from the survey on the eastern side of the Waikare lake, Eangiriri. He has been warned he will be taken prisoner if he persists, as Tawhiao claims jurisdiction. No violence is threatened at present, though parties of natives are stated to be out watching, and the chief agitator is known to have brought his gun with him on his way down to Eangiriri.