AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3706, 10 November 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

" This day. The Auckland Society of Artftts will hold an exhibition in March next. Celebration Banquet Me Arthur and Company gave a grand banquet last evening to celebrate the installation of Alderman McArthur, the head of the firm, as Lord Mayor of London. Nearly two hundred persons were present, and amongst the guests Bishop Cowie, the Attorney-General, Sir Maurice O'Eorke, and several members of the House of Representatives. Cr Waddell, acting Mayor, proposed the health of the Lord Mayor of London; McMillan, his nephew, responded and said Mr McArthur is the first Irishmen elected Lord Mayor of London. The toast of the New Zealand Ministry was responded to by Mr Whitaker, who said that general retrenchment and nonborrowing must be the policy of the country for some time to come. He was positively ashamed to hear the word repudiation used in reference to the colony. He had been forty years in the colony, and felt confident and convinced that notwithstanding the croaking, the . »—_■—•—. „ »-•——• —"gvi.-iiiu »piT^a i ~ tions. ■;'.'. '•"••■■■ - .■"; i'~\ '/ .''■;. Sir Maurice O'Borke, in replying to the toast of the House of tives, did not believe the colony would reel under its burdens, though retrenchment pressed on individuals.; He was glad to say there was no necessity for imposing fresh restrictions on the debates in the House, the forms existing being sufficient. , Bishop Cowie, in his speech, advocated the establishment of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. - '

(FROM OUR OWiN COBBEBPONDBNT.) Auckland, This dajr.' THE WAIKATO TIMES. This journal is beginning to shftw signs of kicking over the Government, and a little bird whispers to me that the elder of the Waikato Times proprietors would not be very sorry to see a reconstruction of the Cabinet. Strange rumors fill the air at present re the political situation. ' '. ' - OUB NEW MAYOB. As yefc nothing is settled as to who is to contest the Mayoral honor. Mr James McCosh Clark is still unwilling to come forward. For your district, I'll back Fraser against the field. He has been a good friend to the district, and always had the welfare of the goldfields and the miners there at heart., '■ THE SPEAKEB OF THE HOUSE. It is understood that Sir George Maurice O'Rorke, Speaker of the House of Representatives and member for the town of Onebunga, will shortly address his constituents. This, of course, it not quite official, but there is no doubt but , some of the Onehunga people would like to hear his swfcet brogue and afterwards ask him some questions re the present situation.