AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4380, 17 January 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

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The spiritualists have been interviewing tne late Hugh Aitken Hamilton, and ho, thry allege, has given them full details of the occurrences which took place on th c niuht on which he died.

Operations are now going on. at Sugar Co.'s works, Duck Creek. Nearly 100 pick and shovel men are at work there. Mr Muir, the engineer, is supervising the works. Mr fiothe, the representative of the compaDy,haviug returned from Sydney by the mail steamer, stated that two steam launches are to be sent from Australia in order to ply between Auokland and the works with stores and materials.

Whakatane was visited by three severe shocks of earthquake on January 7 th. The first occurred about 3 30, the second about 4, and the third about 6 o'clock. The residents were seriously alarmed. On Monday another shock occurred at 8.30 a.m.

The Her. David Bruce and Mr Carrick hare been in Hamilton since Saturday last, making arrangements for the purchase of the Waikato Times. It is reported that the sale is completed.

The Judge, in his charge to the Grand Jury in referring to Stackpole's case, said that the Jury would have to be"~satisfied that the body of the child batr- been concealed. Concealment of the birth was in itself no element of the case. A whale 33 feet long was captured at the Whau last night. The Harbor Engineer estimates ihh cost of the scheme for harbor improve, ments at £240,000.

[Pee Pbess Association.]