Our Auckland Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3938, 12 August 1881, Page 2

Our Auckland Letter.

(FBOM OUR OWN COBBESPONDENT.)

Auckxand, Yesterday.

PATETEBE ! FATETEBE !

The oracle is not yet wholly worked, but strong efforts are being put forth by the members of the Association to get the adjourned Court held in Cambridge next month to complete the titles. Between young Whitaker, Messrs Sheehan, Fenton, and the Native Minister, some shuffling of the Court cards may take place, which will farther tend to postpone the hearings, at all events until both the member for Waipa and the Thames are amongst the professional men engaged in the final stages, and as S&&----advocates are likely to be there for only " pure love and affection " to the Association, a further postponement in all proba* bility will eventuate. Your readers, however, may rest quite satisfied that the end of Patetere is not quite yet. If it were, it would only be killing the goose that lays the golden dollars. Cambridge people will rise in arms against the Government if more native expenditure does not take place in their district next month.

THE HON. JAMES -WILLIAMSON'S SUBSET

HILLS ESTATE.

Competent judges of the value of the Surrey .Hills property, which is under offer to the Auckland Borough Council, assert that if it were cut up the outside figure which it would realise would be under sixty thousand pounds, and yet our Mayor would recommend its public acquisition for the small sum of one hundred thousand pounds. If the bargain is struck, the Town Cleric will have so much patronage to bestow on newspapers for bye-laws, amendment of bye-laws, public notifications, printing, &c, that his patrons would be second Bonanza kings in our unit of a century, and that at the additional grinding of taxes from the Auckland, ratepayers.