AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4349, 8 December 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

'Tliis day

The latest information frojji Samoa was to the effect that Governor 3Des Yoeux, of Fiji, had gone to Samoa to investigate matters connected with the land claims of William Me Arthur, and Co. News has now been received that Governor Dcs Voeux, who is acting Consul-General for the Western Pacific, fined the Samoan natives £100 for interfering with and ejecting a man in charge of the plantations of McArthur and Co. The Governor is indignant at the conduct of Mr Cornwall who horsewhipped Mr McMillan, and, we believe, intends dealing with him as strongly as lies in his power in Fiji.

The new Resident Magistrate and District Judge is Mr Hugh Seth Smith, a comparatively new arrival in the colony. Mr Smith, who is nephew to Bishop Cowie, is an'M.A. of Cambridge, and an English barrister of several years' standing. He was chairman of St. James' Mutual Improvement Society last year.

The Auckland harbor lots fronting Custom-House street, 583 ft frontage, were leased today by auction for £2500 per annum. Purchasers — N.Z. Shipping Coy., J. Buchanan, Tramway Coy , F. Sherff, Brown, Barrett and Co., T. Russell, Harper, Jagger, Cochrane, Mendelssohn.

The prices at the sale of the Harbor Board allotments to-day was the largest yet realised for leasehold property here.

(Per Press Association.)