AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3897, 25 June 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Alice McEntee, a girl five years old, died to-day from blood poisoning. The Licensed Victuallers Association hold a meeting on Monday to decide whether they shall send a delegate to Wellington.

Mary G-alvin, an elderly woman, was found floating in the harbor yesterday. The ship Halcione, from London, is signalled.

A petition for the retention of Mr Brookfield, Mr Tble, M.H.R., and the Key. Mr Nelson, on the Grammar School Board is in course of signature. The object is to prevent the school falling into the hands of a clique. Private letters received by the last mail state that G-aylard's Colossal Circus, now doing a >plend(d business in America, leaves in September for this Colony and Australia in a specially chartered steamer. The circus if said to be even larger and more complete than Cole's, and it has associated with it part of Barnum's celebrated Museum of Curiosities,. as well as a valuable menagerie of animals. The chartered steamer will carry the circus from place to place, the season being a limited one.

Collerick, the telegraph operator who attempted suicide at Whangaroa, got two bottles of cholorydyne, but these were found on him and taken away. He has been brought down to be committed to the Asylum. He says he is determined to commit suicide.