AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3681, 12 October 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Arrival of the s.s. Australia,

Arrived*: s.s. mail steamer Australia from Sydney. She left Sydney on the seventh.

The sixteenth half-yearly meeting of the South British Insurance Company was held at two o'clock yesterday. The following is the report:—The directors have much pleasure in placing before the shareholders the following statement of accounts for the sixteenth half-year of the Company's business, ended the 31st of August last:—lncome from fire marine premiums has been £63,765 8s 8d; from interest and transfer fees, £5278 6c!, lotJil, £69,043 9s ?d;\ which added to £2343 3s sd, brought forward from the previous half year, makes a total of £71,386 12s 7d. The total expenditure has been, fire and marine losses paid and outstanding at close of books, £30,114 5s 3d; reinsurances, commissions, salaries, printing, advertising, general charges, £29,301 sd, leaving a balance of £11,971 6s lid to credit of the profit and loss account from which your directors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of ten per cent, per annum.

The Borough of Parnell presented its Mayor with a silver'cradle on an addition to his family.

Justices of the Peace deputationed Mr Whitaker, asking , that Sub-Inspector Pardy be restored to his former position of sergeant-major. Mr Whitaker promised to refer the matter to Wellington.

A sergeant in plain clothes shortly commences enforcing the compulsory clauses of the Education Act.

Captain Purvis, of the H.M. s.s. Dante, received a telegram from Commodore Wilson instructing him to leave Auckland on the 18th inst for Fiji. It is probable the Dana will bring the new Governor and not the Emerald.

The recent gold discovery at Te Aroha is in block seven. A thousand acres were allotted as a native reserve. Government are taking steps to verify the discovery.

The yacht Pearl, capsized off Kauri Point, and a boy named Day was

drowned.