AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4368, 3 January 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

The Premier leaves for the Waikato to*morrow, and will perform the ceremony of freeing Hamilton bridge from tolls.

Mr Whitaker received a cablegram from Sir Dillon Bell, Agent-General, yesterday, stating that a Professor had been appointed for the Auckland University, and a Master for Oamaru High School. Full particulars will arrive at Wellington from London next mail. A shipment of gold by the City of New York for [San Francisco was made yesterday, being 4 boxes containing 38070zs sdwts valued at £15,228. Of this quantity, 27100zs was the produce of the Thames. De.Lias is again very ill. A melancholy drowning case took place at Pukerimu on New Year's Day. Some children attending the Cambridge Wes~ leyan Sunday School were out pic nicin& when a little fellow twelve years old, son of Mr Kingdom, blacksmith, Cambridge, along with some other youngsters, went to bathe in the river, and was swept away by the current and drowned. £9500 passed through the totalizator at the race meeting.

H. J. Smith, for many years commercial traveller for Clarke and Sons, ware* housemen, poisoned himself at his residence, North Shore, yesterday. He had been at the races with his wife, and

seemed in good health. After his return he went into his own room, and his wife going in some time afterwards found him lying down with two empty bottles of chloral. The doctor sent for applied the stomach pump, but it was unavailing, the patient dying soon afterwards, It is not known whether it is a case of suicide, or whether he had taken an overdose of the drug. No cause is known for the sucide.