AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3911, 12 July 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day

C-- Major Paul died suddenly last night ten and eleven o'clock, at the Northern Club. The deceased gentleman arrived by the" Penguin from Wellington yesterday morning, on route for Waiwera, in fche^hgiftß tha,t a course of baths would afford relief from asthma. He was staying at the Club, and on retiring to his room i last evening he desired, the.-attendant to bring him a basin of hoiTwater, with the intention of inhaling the fumes. The act of inhalation had affected his lungs, when finding that something had gone wrong, he opened the door, to call for assistance, and fell forward in the hall on his face .dying instantaneously. Drs Munro and , Honeyman who happened to be in the Club at the time, their services were invoked, but in vain. He had burst a blood vessel, and died of internal hemorrhage! The deceased gentleman \was formerly in the 65th Regiment; he settled subsequently at Wellington, and on the retirement of Dr Green wood, was appointed Sergeant at Arms of the House of Eepresentatives, but subsequently he resigned.

Government are in a difficulty by the resignation of the Local Board of Health, and are negotiating to induce them to resume office with enlarged powers.

The passengers for Sydney by the Penguin, complain in the Herald of the Union Company in transferring them from the Kingarooma and leaving them without any vessel to take them on. The Albion is not advertised (;o go till Friday, and may be detained here in quarantine, thus leaving sixty or seventy passengers without means in a strange place.

John Powell, charged at the Police Court with stealing a gold watch from John Ssllion§ of Temuka, has been remanded to Timaru.