AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3393, 6 November 1879, Page 1

AUCKLAND.

Last night. . Arrived: The schooner Sissy, from Greymouth.

The brig Syren cleared for Kaipara. She loads timber for Sydney. Sailed: Hero, for Sydney; barque Matthew, for Newcastle; Waitaki, for the South; with the following passengers : —For .Next Pljmouth: M«fir« BoVltt, Ogilrie, Holmes, Brunei (2).. Kelson: Eawiiiti, Her. D.Bruce*, ana Harris. Wellington: Mrs Hunter, Misa Evren, Messrs Armitage, McCullough, Grime, D. L. Wilton, Te Wheoro, J. M. Clark, Malboro', Grime, Smith, Southern, Major Fraser, O'Leary, Sullivan, N. Mooney, and Constable Christie. Lyttelton: Miss Cunningham, and Messrs Wills and Smith. Dunedin: Messrs J. M. Sharp and J. Murdoch. Melbourne: Messrs G. Agrah, F. Wil?on, and Gardiaer.

H.M.S. Cormorant leaves for Tauranga shortly. At an inquest on the body of William Hudson Dixon, found dead in a bedroom of the Auckland Hotel; the evidence showed that deceased was subject to epileptic fit 8, brought on by excessive drinking. He was a commercial travel* ler, and a new arrival. He leaves a wife and five children.in Manchester. The Committee of the Workingznon's Political Association have finished their revision of the tariff of protective or increased duties, and recommend a range from 10 to 25 per cent. ..