AUCKLAND
This day,
The annual rateable value of the city of Auckland is £270,000, being an increase of £35,000 over last year. The increase within the old City district is £20,000.
Gulliver, late secretory of the Ponsonby district, now united to the city, who was engaged by the City Council to collect rates in Ponsonby Ward, states that he went down the wharf with £152 of rates in his pocket when he was seized with a sadden vertigo and nearly fell over, and that the pocket book was jerked out of his pocket into the water. The pocket bdok has since been recovered, but only £42 was found therein
Saturday,
Arrived : The Peerless, from Hobart.
The Wesleyan Conference this morning adopted the rules of the loan fuad, to which £1050 is already promised. The final session is to be held on Monday.
The railway employes' annual picnic was held at> Buckland's. There waa splendid weather, and the affair was very successful.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4396, 5 February 1883, Page 2
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