AUCKLAND.
| List night. Greal interest is manifested in th« wile raca between O'Connor (Auckland), Vanjrhan (Went Const), aud . Brawn (Auckland), which cornea ofl' on Monday. Brown (ex-champion of Auckland) gets 40 yards from the two former—ten yards more than O'Connor gare him in the contest lait Maj, A two-roomed house, was burned down at Stokes' Point, North Shore, belonging to Mrs Crump. It .wax insured for 'a ■vail amount in the Victoria Company. A company hare offered £200 a year to the City Council for the mill and adjoining lands at Western Springs, and propose to expend £20,000 in adapting the property for the purposes of manufacturing tweed, cioth,hlankets and other woollen material*. Council consider the pries offered, lacking to the rent, which the estate is now yielding, not enough to warrant them in grant* ing a sixty-»ix years lease, bit are, it is understood, willing to come to terms if £50 a year more is conceded. The City Council intend opening the West-end Park for public use. , An entertainment, consisting of amateur theatricals, came off successfully in the Choral Hall, in aid of St. Lake's Parsonage Fund. ——-—
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3394, 7 November 1879, Page 1
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188AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3394, 7 November 1879, Page 1
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