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AUCKLAND.

Yesterday. A new Prophet-

It is stated that one of Te Kooti's wives is at Te Kopua, near Kawakawa, engaged in making convents to Te Kooti's new religiou. She is expected to visit Marsh Brown's settlement at Waiomio, and much interest is taken in her movements.

A boy named Albert Baylas, aged nine years, was drowned at Alexandra. The result of tke first sale of Te Aroha lands.

A public sale of waste lands, consisting of town, suburban and rural sections, was held at the Waste Ijands Office today, and more than ordinary interest was attached to the sale from the iact that a number of the lots in the Waikato township were those which had been with* drawn from sale by the late Government pending negotiations with Tawhiao, the Maori King, but that dignatary having withdrawn from the negotiations, the lots were restored to the control of the Waste Lands Board, and accordingly were put up for sale. Another feature was that at this sale the first portions of the famed Te Aroha Block were put up fpr sale. Considering the pressingdeniandsthathave been made on Government and the Waste Lands Board, especially by the Thames public, and the outcry for lands for settlers of small means, it was astonishing to observe that there was not only no oompetitioa but very few bidders, and not a single Thames settler appeared as a purchaser. The small suburban lots iv the Te Aroha were spicially surveyed so as to enable working men to acquire a imall

freehold, but they did not seek "to ava themselves of the privilege. A considerable number of sections in the town of Tauranga, the whole of those ia the town of Te Awatuutu, and the greater portion of those in the town of Newcastle (Ngaruawahia) offered for sale were disposed of, and only a few of the Te Aroha suburban lots found purchasers, and none of the rural lots, farms varying from 130 to 248 acres put up at £2 an acre, elicited a bid, although the land bordered on the river and was of good quality.

A Good Speculation.

Mr Sheehau has definitely decided to go into business in the Waikato and specially to direct his attention to the opening up and settling of various blocks of native land which have for some years past been under negotiation by Europeans. It is said that all the lands which he will deal with will be offered for sale by public auction, and that a largo area of the best lands will be opened for sale upon the deferred payment system. A low Scoundrel-

A series of most audacious criminal assaults are being committed on women, by some scoundrel who was only prevented from perpetrating a vile offence through timely aid arriving. It appears, as far as we can learn, that the circumstances are as follows::—Mr Shakespearei sewing-machine agent, after* tbft business hours of yesterday^ proceeded to the railway wharf to fish. At about nine o'clock his wife, Mrs Shakespeare, and his niece, Miss Shakespeare, were proceeding down Customhouse street to meet him when suddenly a man rushed upon them. He first caught bold of Mrs Shakespeare's two hands, shook, and pulled her, but she managed to release herself, and he then attacked Miss Shakespeare in the same, manner, pulling her so violently as to tar the sleeves of her dress- Some person standing in the neighbourhood of "Jacob's Ladder" rushed forward on hearing the screams of the women, upon which the scoundrel decamped. Information was promptly conveyed to the'police station, and the detectives started:-in search. Within an hou rof this occurence information was brought to Sergeant Jackson, Parhell, that a man was detected in the act of committing a criminal assault on a woman in Parnell; and, acting promptly on the information re ceived, he arrested one William Samuel Tidmnrsh, a man who has more than once appeared in the dock of tho Supreme Court, and brought him to the central police-station. This was about 10o'clock, at which time Mrs and Miss Shakespeare were in attendance. They at once identified the prisoner, from amongst a 1 number of others, as the man who had assaulted them.

The Regatta.

The entries for the H'egatta took place this evening, and iutense excitement existed. The neighborhood of the hotel being impassable for the crowd. This year the interest is centred in the Champion Schooner Race, as the Transit, schooner, for years champion of the colony, meets with better company than ever. Several of the crack Island Teasels are just in, and also three or four new ones, including the Annie Wilson, who took second honours at the late Lyttelton regatta. The small ketch Adah is among the entries; she came in astern of the Transit last year, but took first honors on the time allowance. The following are the entries for the Champion Schooner Race:—Mazeppa, Caledonia, Borealis, Annie Wilsou, Adah, Ryno, Reward, Fleetwing, Mary Anderson, and the Transit.

As the Chairman of the Harbor Board declined to sign the cheque for £25 voted by the Board as a contribution to the Regatta funds on the score of illegality, three members of the Board, Messrs Oompton, Masefield, and C. B. Stone, forwarded their cheques respectively for £8 6s Bd, so that the Board's intention might be carried out.

A stormy meeting of the Board was held today. Strong language was used.

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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3461, 28 January 1880, Page 2

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AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3461, 28 January 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3461, 28 January 1880, Page 2

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