AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4694, 23 January 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Mr Fox, the new local pilot, is a firstclass yachtsman, having often been in charge of a gentleman's yacht in the Mediterranean.

Mrs 'Knight, wife of the well-known fruiterer, has been arrested on a charge of lunacy. She denies the weakness most strenuously. It has been arranged that the annual firing in connection with the Auckland Eifle Association takesp'aceon regatta day. The N.Z. Shipping Co. have made arrangements so that for the future all their direct steamers on passages from London are to call at Hobart.

Neves has been received here that William Somerville, son of the evangelist, w.ho obtained his degree as Bachelor of Science in the University of Glasgow, is studying for the medical profession, and is expected to practice in New Zealand. Plans of the new steamers for Shaw, Saville and Co. are now on exhibition here. They are to be 420 feet long between perpendiculars, 44 feet beam, and 32 feet depth of hold. Their tonnage will exceed 5000 tons. It is announced that a publication named the Photographic Advertiser willbe issued here shortly by Mr Stringer, and will contain a series of views.

Thfi buildings on Queen street Wharf, formerly occupied by Mr Nathan, and partially destroyed by fire, are to be raised to three stories, when tb/ey wjH be nearer the level of Mr Russell's new structure of four stories.

Jt js the intention of the employes of the City Council to hold an annual reunion in the form of a dinner on Friday evening. The proposal to make the Ghampjion gphooner Eace a handicap erenjt is meet* ing with Btrong opposition. It is contended tfcafc it wijl bare ithe effect of giving perhaps this $rorst fooafc jn jthe harbor the right to fly the champion and thus damage the reputation or the port. At the Police Court yesterday a man was sentenced to six months for vagrancy, who joqly a few years ago owned a comforUble residence jn the suburbs, and had

£2000 worth of property in his possession.

In connection with the Heywood legacy case, George Staines has agreed to pay into CoHrt £1000 in satisfaction of all claims and costs.

(Pee Pbess Association.)