AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3679, 9 October 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Four officials of the natire office in Auckland hare received notices that their services will be dispensed with.

The timber trade is brisk. The Lura, a schooner, is loading tongued and grooved timber and joinery for Sydney. The Kenil worth, sashes and doors for Lyttelton.

The publication of the New Zealand Muse is suspended through the dissolution of partnership.

Mr Michael Cook leased from the City Council a site for a glass manufactory which will be started immediately.

A beautiful cutter yacht is being built by Thomas Niccol of the North Shore, for the purpose of representing Auckland in the Intercolonial Regatta to be held in Hobson's Bay, Melbourne, on the 15th of January next. She will, by her size be qualified to sail in the first-class match for the prize £200.

News from Samoa by the Coronet states that Savau is in a disturbed state, and all are prepared to fight—and in such a disturbed state that the Jubilee meeting of the London Missionary Society had to be postponed.

Sub>lnspector Kenny of the Thames made an important seizure of smuggled spirits andjbeer at Whangamata, estimated to be £300 in value. The cases were found buried in the sand near Sainsbury's store.

No intelligence has yet been received of the crew of the wrecked ship James A. Stewart.