AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3392, 5 November 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Meeting xc the Big Pump. f |A meeting of the Pumping Association was held this morning. C. J. Stone presided. The balance-sheet showed liabilities amounting to over £400, assets nil. It was decided that the Moanatairi Company keep pumping until the Ist December, when a further meeting will be held. The secretary was requested to write to the companies who hare not paid their subscription, and urgently request payment 1

William Hudson Dixon, who, with his brother, had been staying at the Auckland Hotel for some time, was found dead in his bed this morning; it is supposed from epilipsy. An inquest will be held.

The Governor's private secretary telegraphed to the Mayor expressing the sympathy of tho Governor and Lady Eobinsou on the death of his wife.

Ngatiraukawa tribe, occupying lands between Cambrigde, Waikato, and Eotorua, hold their first concluded meeting at Te Papa, and resolred not to allow the road to go through to the Lake in the meanwhile, but to hare Patetero lands surveyed, and settle the boundaries among themselves. Then they will pass it through the Court, after which, the question of the road will be considered. The Patetere lands aro to be surveyed, partly on account of the Government purchases, and partly for private purchases.

Two hundred pounds will corcr the loss by Porter's fire.

Eggs are reduced to eightpence per dozen, wholesale. A shipment has been made to New Caledonia.

Dempsey, the contractor for the reclamation, paid his employes their wages in full this morning, and the agitation is therefore at an end. He has further promised to take on agnin to-morrow morning as many men as he possibly can.