AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4245, 9 August 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

It is stated thsre will be no difficulty in in floating the shares in the new northern railway from Dargaville to Maungonui Bluff, near Hokianga. Mr W. A; Graham, who surveyed the land on this route years ago, speaks highly of its. agricultural qualities. There is said to be some 40,000 acres of timber land available under the District-Railways Act :is an endowment. It is expected that u-o timber companies whose bushes the ;inc will pass, and over which the timber will come, will invest largely in the enter-

prise. The directors of the Queen of Beauty assert the books are always open to registered shareholders. A young lady named Pearce gare information to the police that she had been assaulted by William Fe.aton,who, when arrested, was fouud to be iv a state* bordering on delirium Iremens. At Court, after hearing the evidence, t!ie charge was withdrawn. A well known Auckland lawyer is suitor for the hand of Tawhiao's daughter, but the old man objects. Should he get her,

he will have to take an encumbrance, in the form of a two year old daughter. From a private source I learn that whatever is the result of the inquiry into the charges against Scn>t. O'Grady, he will be removed from the Thames; indeed that a sergeant who at present edits the New Zealand Police Gazette at Wellington is under orders to proceed to tako charge of that distiicfc.

[Per Puess Association.]