AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4858, 5 August 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

V;v--..:..."'.■.',. "■-. ■' •.:;■'■■■ TI"8 day. Ha-wsa Ashore in Auckland ; V '^.;.:...,>■•-■ Harbor, v. During a dense fog this morning a misbap occurred to the s.s. Havre*. The gteamer cast off from the wharf at eight o'clock, and when she had proceeded a mile and a half down the harbor she ran aground on a sand-bank, and remained fast,' all attempts; to l)ack^her proving futile. fog cleared, the '.Vessel wasdiscbyerejdto be a considerable dis* tance ont of her course. • She is.perfectly safe and uninjured; and will probably be kedged off to-night and sail to-morrow. "' At the Auckland Bating Club; meeting the balance sheet showed assets Valued at £12,610, and a credit balance after the years expenditure;qfi£l22o; Fatalincident. A recent arrival from England, named J. Barton, was killed by being thrown from his. horse on the Onohanga road last night. He had been riding in company with a barmaid named Agnes Wybar. At a meeting of rolunteers held last night a resolution l avoring the abolition of the New Zealand Eifle Association was carried, and it was decided to request the Defence Minister to vote monies to encourage local associations. The Auckland Timber Company pays over £1000 a week in wages.