AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4649, 28 November 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. It has been decided to build the Harbor offices of brick instead of concrete. Ilr Connolly's tender of £5070 has been accepted for the work. A convert who tea tified at the Salvat jonisfc' serf ice last night admitted having done six months in Mount Eden for sacrilege. ,About 1000 shares hare already been subscribed for the proposed Plumpton Park Company. A further water frontage on the reclamation has been granted for the extension of the public salt water baths. The Waitaki takes a large number of citizens to Whangarei to-night to inspect the coal industry there. , The first drove of sheep for the Auckland Freezing Company, numbering 2000, passed through Taupo from Hawkes' Bay yesterday. Efforts are being made to arrange a war canoe race at the Auckland Regatta. The Kamo Coal Co. are sinking a shaft on the seam which, it is expected, will increase the output to 2000 tons per week. ' The Harbor Board have decided to . prosecute Captain Webber, of the maii steamer Zealanaia, for interference w.Lh the pilot while on duty. It is estimated that more than douole the number of single girls who arrived by the Triumph could have readily found engagements. All the men arrivals have situations. Two vessel? are now discharging machinery and plant for the sugar refining works at Northcote. About 160 men are engaged on the works, (

Tne Sunday School Industrial Exhibi tion last night was crowded.

(Pee Pbess Association.)