AUCKLAND.
This day
Gfarrard, the unemployed agitators charged bis wife at the Police Court today with ill using and threatening to poison him. Mrs Garrard said her husband was a loafer—would talk, not work. The Magistrate dismissed the case, advising them to settle their domestic differences amicably.
At the Albion inquiry, the captain and mate of the Isabella Pratt both swore that the lights on the schooner were burning up to the time of the collision. 'Ike mate said he examined them after the steamer came in sight.
Rochefort, barrister, has advised Taiarua that he is still a member of the Legislative Council, and therefore ineligible to hold a seat it' elected for the Maori Electoral District in the House of Representatives.
The Southern Cross has arrived from Levuka. The details of the gale show that the previous reports of the damage were greatly exaggerated. The steamers Go-ahead and Phanix sunk alongside the wharf, but have since been raised. The schooner Tasman was wrecked alongside the wharf, and several cutters were stranded. The damage ashore was not serious, with the exception of the unroofing of Judge Gorrie's house. The celebrated chief Maifu is dead.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 26 February 1881, Page 2
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194AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 26 February 1881, Page 2
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