AUCKLAND.
Last night. The Cormorant sailed for Taurauga, and returns in a week. Sailed : Hawea, for the South. Arrived: Hero, from Sydney, with » large number of passengers, and a heavy freight. The Customs duties for the month at the port of Auckland amount to £17,8(39.
J. S. MeFarlane left for Gisborne today to proceed with the caso brought against W. S. Eees. The action is for £10,000 damages, which it is set forth in pleading hare been sustained in the the estate of the lato Captain Keed, through slanders committed by Jfr h'ees against the titles to lands in the Poverty Bay district, in the estate of which Mr McFariane is trastee.
A meeting of creditors is called in the estate of Harris and Haslett, booksellers ; liabilities £812, assets £78.
At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society it was reported that of 3000 troufc sent to Pfikeno half of tho number had been killed by the shaking of the cart in which they were transported. Mrs Harding-Britten lectured in aid of the Total Abstinence Society in the Temperance Hall on " Public Amusements," to a large audience.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3415, 2 December 1879, Page 2
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186AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3415, 2 December 1879, Page 2
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