AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4218, 8 July 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(Per Press Association.)

This day. j Tawbiao has written to Mr Dufaur, Winiata's counsel, alleging that at the banquet at Auckland, on the occasion of his visit, Mr Whitaker said all past troubles and causes of quarrel were to be forgotten henceforward. He understood this was equivalent to an amnesty for all past offences, and thinks the capture of Winiata an act of treachery. A Tradesmen's Ball to the petty officers of the Nelson is to be held. Sound bottom for the piers of the railway bridge across the Waikato at Hamilton has not been found at a depth of 80 feet below the bed of the river.

The Auckland Stud Company refused £1000 for their Musket-Sylvia yearling filly. Winiata's ease was continued this morning. A native named Newton deposed that while at Hikurangi in 1880 he was informed by Winiato that he and another native quarrelled with Packer and they killed him, the other native striking the blows. Barlow and Constable Gillies deposed that, while coming down in the train after the arrest, Winiata accused a half-caste named Harry, now residing at the Bay of Islands, of murdering Packer. The prisoner was committed for trial.