AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4407, 17 February 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Yesterday,

Wi Pare held a meeting of natives at the Town Hall, Cambridge, explaining what the East Coast Land Company has done, and purpose doing. About 150 natives were present and some sprinkling of Europeans. After Wi Pere had ex* plained his views and proffered advice to the natives, Mr Sheehan rose and spoke with some bitterness of the East Coast Company, maintaining that the Waikato wanted nothing from Poverty Bay in the shape of mana, money, or direction. Wi Pere replied with much spiritj and things were said in altercation, that had better been left unsaid.

! _ This day. A fire broke oat at Oneliunga at two o'clock this morning in the premises of McMahon, a general dealer, and destroyed, likewise, Mclnfcyre's iron factory, and Vause's buildings, used as the offices of the Manukau Steam Navigation Co. The origin of the fire is unknown. The damage is estimated at overg£sooo. The only building tenanted was that of Mc» Mahon, who was awakened with a sense of suffocation. Insurances—McMahon, building, £300 ia South British, stock and building, £200 in the Colonial; Mela tyre, £1800, divided between the Standard and the National; Vause, £200 in the Standard. Mclotyre estimates his loss at £3000.

Mr Bryce arrived from.the Waikato last night, and proceeded at once to Whangarei.

A' Swedish seaman named Antonio Pearson, belonging to the barque Gronsvaer, was found drowned in the harbor to-day. ;

Arrived: Mataura, barque, Captain Greenstreet, 98 days from London. Two deaths occurred on the voyage. There are 50 passengers. Jtfeports speaking the Philomene from London to Dunedin, off Tristan D'Acunha on January 3rd. All well.