AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3736, 15 December 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

A boy named Leith, 10 years of age, son of the lighthouse-keeper, fell over a precipice at Tiri Tiri. The body has not been recovered.

Mr Clark, the new Mayor, ia his inaugural address spoke of the necessity for seeing to the purity of the water, of reducing the charges for supply, and for bringing the disputes with the Harbor Board to an end. He gives a dinner tonight.

Intelligence by the mail states that Mr Grant, of Grant and Foster, is unable to realise on his property in England owing to the agriculture depression. This will not prejudice the Te Aroha settlement.

Mr Bryce, Native Minister is expected in Auckland shortly.

The Mormon Elder Batt, writes a savage letter to the press in reply to Simmons' letter per the Australia. Mr Batt says Lunnon was baptised at Papanui but was in search of a wife, not the Gospel. He accuses Lunnon of being as " Mean as the devil." The letter concludes " If any' person should want to make money by betting, they can set their stakes on this, that the Mormons will continue to gather by hundreds of thousands, because this is the work of God." The letter also states that two hundred converts in New Zealand are awaiting passages to Utah. No sign of the Tararua at Bassel.