AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3667, 27 September 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. The late rains have considerably benefit ted the country districts.

The Liugards are playing a successful season. They produce Pinafore to-night.

A settler named Hill, having been driven off his lands at Waikare near Bangariri, and no reply having been received to appeals for Government pro. tection, the settlers in the neighbourhood threaten to raise a corps and take the law into their own hands.

Grant and Foster offer to purchase land at Te Aroha if they can come to terms with Government.

Seymour George addressed the electors of Warkworth on Saturday. He opposed further borrowing; supported the Educa. tion Act and Separation ; denounced the Patatere Block transaction, and would abolish County Councils. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed.

Carter made a splendid attempt to drive a coach from Cambridge through to Olriuetnutu on Saturday, but failed within a few miles of his destination owing to the impassable condition of the road.

James Williamson has commenced the cultivation of his large estate near Hamilton. One thousand acres of land are to be ploughed immediately, one third of which will be sown in turnips. A vast swamp will be reclaimed.