AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3387, 30 October 1879, Page 1

AUCKLAND.

[Special Wibe to " Stai."]

(Pis Fbxss Association.)

Last sight. Intelligence from Norfolk Island states that Bishop Selwyn is about to make a complete circuit of his diocese occupying him till the close of the year.. A great rain storm passed over the island, causing some damage. 3£ inches fell in an hour.

In the case of Francis Pomberton, a bankrupt, an important legal point was decided in banco bj Judge Gillies. Messrs Wilsons and Horton had prose* cuted Pemberton for embezzlement, and he was committed. They subsequently claimed to rank as creditors for £335, claiming a dividend of 4s 3d in the £. The trustee rejected their proof of the debt on the ground that, baring proceeded criminally, they could not rank as ordinary creditors, but at the same time reserved the dividend claimed pending the decision of the Judge. Judge Gillies declared that Messrs Wilsons and Horton Bhould be allowed to prove and to receive their dividend. A man named Hugh Gradon was badly injured by a timber wedge at Jagger and Parker's Sawmill. John Lyon has been committed to trial for brutally assaulting JohnLown3er. Sailed: Taiaroa, for the South. Arrived: Schooner Magepana, from Harotonga. The whaleship Caution, called off Russell and reports getting 100 barrels sperm since June last. A bushman named Charles Hopking at Paiteki narrowly escaped bleeding to death, through an axe glancing off a tree and going deeply into his leg. When he reached his mates, he fainted from loss of blood.

A memorial expressing the confidence of the electors of Newton in Mr Swanson, was in circulation today, and receired a laree number of signatures. " _ William Crayford was sentenced to six months hard labor for beating his wife and breaking her ribs. She had to be brought to Court in a cabThe Chairman of the City West meeting received a telegram to-day from Mr Hurst declining to resign, and stating that time would justify his conduct. ' A committee of the Working Mena* Political Association is engaged in a revision of the tariff.

A meeting of the creditors of John James Allen, bash contractor, has b«on held. Liabilities, £385 ; assets, £18.

Robert McEwen, 8 years old, wai charged with setting fire to a haystack, which arose through lads playing with crackers. The Magistrate said it wai either arson or nothing, and there being no malicious intent the case was dismissed. The father of the lad, who was charged with obstructing the arrest expressed regret for his conduct, and the case wai withdrawn.