PER SPECIAL WIRE TO "STAR."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3355, 23 September 1879, Page 2

PER SPECIAL WIRE TO "STAR."

(Pee Pbess Association.)

AUCKLAND.

Last night.

Sailed: schooner Sea Rip, for Maryborough;, schooner Lizzie Guy, timber laden, forTimaru; Penguin for the South. Passengers for Tauranga :—Brighton, Mrs Laybourn. Gisborne—J. S. Macfarlane, Hamilton, Wright, Cheshire, Mm Barker. Napier—Miss Collins, J. Bonard, Mrs Prichard and three children, Pearson, Warren, Hays. Wellington—Mr and Mfs Montros, Keith junr., Hassell, McLeod. Lyttelton — Eer. Calder, A. Scott. Dunedin—W. Sprigg. More of the Unemployed on

their way to Work. The Hinemoa sailed to-day with the following members of ihe Assembly:— Hons. Dr Pollen, Dignan, Chamberlin, Henderson and Paterson (Dunedin). Lower House—Messrs Hurst and Wallit (City West), O'Rorke (Onehunga), Swanson (Newton), Speight (City East). Whitaker (Waipa), Wbyte (Waikato), Hamlin and Harris (Franklyn), Tole (Eden), Colbeck (Marsden), McDonald (East Coast), Eeader Wood (Waitemata), Moss (Parnell), Shrimgki (Waitaki), Murray (Bruce), Hon. Mohi Tawhia (Northern Maori District), and Major Te Wbeoro (Western Maori District). Tupotahi, Eewi's representative, and the Her. Andrew Barton were also on board.

The following were also passengers by the Hinemoa:—The Hon. Mrs Paterson, Mrs . O'Rorke, Mrs and Misses (2) Colbeck, Mrs Hurst, Mrs Shrimski, Sir Robert Douglas, Lawri F. Eich, W. Berry {New Zealand Herald), Wilkinson (Thames Advertiser). The Hon. James Williamson, and John Lundon, M.H.8., were absentees, and did not take their passage by the Hinemoa. '

Captain Murphy, of the Minister of Marine was charged with refusing to pay wages justly due to Putri Marie, a seaman. It appeared that plaintiff held the captain's discharge in writing but had not obtained the consent of the shipping master to leave. The case was dismissed but the captain was ordered to pay the costs, £3 11s.

At a meeting of the Auckland Teacheri' Association a motion wai made that the salaries of teachers throughout the colony be assimilated, and thus put Nor* them teachers on the same footing as those of the South. On the casting vote of the Chairman, Mr Worthington, the motion was lost. Hon. Colonel Kenny dees not go down to Wellington on account of ill health.' Seven seamen of the Minister of Marine who were sentenced to three months imprisonment for malingering were previously examined by Drs. Goldsbro* and Haiues, when one man was found to be ill ond was sent back to the ship.

Alfred Cale, the prosecutor in the cruelty case against Capt. Murphy, said he would be able to prove he was really ill, and further said that the Bench would confer favor on him by sending him to prison, as he would by that means escape the persecution to which he had bean subjected to while on board the ship. At the inquest on Daniel McEroy, of the ship Famenotb, drowned at the wharf, the jury returned a verdict " Found drowned."

John Fitzgerald, for the larceny of £6 from Charles Pratt, was committed for trial. A second charge was laid against him of the robbery of jewellery from J. W. Kendall of Wellington, for which he will also bo tried.

Surveyors stopped Working. '

The surveyors at JRangiriri have i received instructions to desist surveying at the Waikare Lake for the present, and to go on working higher up the district. Some of the Natives at Rangiriri say it is not their people who are causing the trouble, but the natives from the King country who came down to liangiriri for the express purpose of stopping the surveyors.

An nlarm of fire took place at 7 p.m. through some smoke rising np through the cellar gratings of Kempthorne and Proa* ser's premises in Shortlahd Btreet. On the Police.and Fire Brigade breaking in, it was.discovered that rats had tampered with ajar of phosphorus. The officer in charge at the Mew Zealand Insurance Company's building promptly -put out the flame with one of Eadcock'a extiguishers.