AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4240, 3 August 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Winiata, as the period of his execution draws nigh, appears to feel more deeply and keenly his position, and it is doubtful whether he will maintain the air of fortitude he has hitherto evinced to the last. He took exercise yesterday, but the ominous sounds which struck on his ear as the busy carpenters were engaged in erecting the scaffold tended greatly to depress him, and he seemed dazed and confused.

Messrs Brett, Dargaville, Mitchelson, and others have floated a company, with a capital of^6o^oo, to construct? a s line of railway from Dargaville to Mangonui Bluff. The line is to, be constructed under the Railways Construction Act, and will be twenty miles in length. It passes through Government and native land. It will be necessary that the Legislature should pass the Railways Construction Amendment Bill, introduced in the Council by Mr Whitaker,'before this line can be gone on with, because it does not join a Government railway.

The current number of the Church Gazette contains an obituary notice of the late Archdeacon Lush. It states that Mr Lush gave the Thames Primitive Methodist minister instruction in Greek. Carr, the beat builder; has just completed a fine fishing yacht for Clay, of the Thames. Flans have been prepared for the erection of a Jewish Synagogue, opposite the Northern Glub. It will accommodate 350 people. •

[Per Pbbsi Association.]