AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Issue XI, 25 November 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

The Governor leaves for Wellington in the Hinemoa at two p.m. to-morrow, and expects to arrive in Wellington at six p.m. on Saturday. The tide prevents his leaving the Manakau earlier than tomorrow.

The proclamation issued re Patetere Lands appoints a sitting of the Land Court at Cambridge on January 25th, at which one block pf 249,000 acres will be adjudicated. The Court will also deal with lands at Hokianga, Whangarei, Thames, Taupo, Bay of Plenty, Tologa Bay, Otaki, Wanganui, and Patea. The Government have scheduled blocks of about a million acres in area, with regard to which they will proceed under the Native Land Act, 1877 in order to set aside land equivalent to the Government advances. From the date of the order of the Court, the remainder of the lands will be open to public competition.

The chiefs of the Ngatimanipoto and Te Ngakau were present during the expulsion of the ploughmen from Tole's land at Ngamoko, but did not interfere. The natives now threaten de* predations on McLean's land. Yesterday. Miss Williams, of the Thames, has been appointed assistant teacher in the Hamilton school.

There is a stampede from Waikato to Te Aroha, which is draining the labor markets of Waikato. Forty people left Cambridge in one day. Letters have been received from Judge Gillies by the Hero, stating that His Honor and Mrs Gillies will come on to Auckland by the Zealandia, arriving about the 7th prox. A man named Andrew Jackson, alias Snowball, arrested on Saturday in the Waikato, by Constable Brennau on a charge of deserting his wife and family, and leaving them in a state of destitution, was brought to the police station to-day, and will have to answer the charge to* morrow morning.