AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3943, 18 August 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day

There is little doubt but the vessel reported by the natives as wrecked on the coast a few miles south of Kaipara Heads, ( is the schooner Kona, which usually trades ( to Ljttelton..^faa^|^^.uckl ( ind in ' ballast on August^^^^^^wns due at Kaipara quite a week ago^^urther particulars received to-day state that the Maories say the yards, blocks, and one of her anchors are upon the beach. The vessel is buried in sand all but to her uppers. The Bona was commanded by Captain Kenneth McKeozie, who was also half owner, and has ha.d charge of the ■ vessel since she was built, two and a half years ago. He has a wife and four children at Oamaru. The names of the crew are :—Robert Smith, Neal Carmichael, Charles Johnson, and W. Eagle. The vessel was insured for £400, only about half her value.

The suicide of Arthur Craig, at Churchill, was a very determined one. About half past two on Monday morning the neighbors were alarmed by the screaming of deceased's young children, and an alarm of fire. Upon entering the house they found Craig had tied his feet to the colonial sofa on which he was lying, and had set fire to a quantity of tow he had collected upon him. They tried to pull him from the couch, but he resisted strongly, holding the wooden bars at the head so that they broke away with him. He was then got from the burning couch, and laid on the floor, which is even charred where he lay. Craig died at eight o'clock on Monday, before Dr Edgelow arrived from Hamilton. The deceased was a widower, having a married daughter living in Auckland, and another daughter living in service at Bell's, Churchill, with several youeger children living with him in his

house