AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3381, 23 October 1879, Page 1

AUCKLAND.

Last night. DeLias and tho Publicans. Some time ago certain publicans agreed to give Mr DeLias £1 per week each s« long as he kept tho Theatre open. The contributaries failing, DeLms sued on his agreement, gettiag judgment for the amount and costs. A defendant (Hill of the ■Victoria) appealed against the decision, but Mr Justice Gillies dismissed . the appeal with costs, on the grouncTthat where a Magistrate decided in equity and good conscience no appeal was possible. Another Brutal Husband. A Mr Crayford was arrested for a mar* derous attack on his wife and remanded. The doctors feared some broken ribs might pierce her lunga. . Peter McGrath was sentenced to two months' hard labour for shockingly ill. tising his son, aged 12. McGrath had just nerved three years for a murderous assault on his wife who, to escape his wengeance, has gone to Australia. The lad had given evidence for his mother. ' Attempt to Break the Auckland Phalanx. „ Th« following telegram was forwarded to-day to Mr Moms, M.H.8., for Parnell, by a section of his constituents:—»" Under the present circumstances we desire that yon sink party considerations, and go for the North's share of the public works expenditure. Hall and Whitaker preferred to the combination with Macandrew."; Hatives again at Work. Intelligence has been received that the natives hare destroyed all the trig stations erected by Mr Edgecunibe, surveyor, between Huntley and Itangiriri, and ordered him off the grounds. , Local Industries, At a meeting of the Working Men's Political Association the membership was announced as 260, and discussion took place on the advisability of imposing a protective duty on sugar with the view of encouraging the establishment of sugar refineries in the colon}'.