AUCKLAND.
This day. Mr W. J. Murks, who erected the first gasworks in Auckland, died yesterday. A ITew Masonic Lodge. Sir F. Whitaker opens a new Masonic Lodge at Ponsonby on Wednesday. Fatal Accident. — Alexander, poundkeeper at Te Awamutu. was thrown from his horse on Saturday, and killed instantaneously. The boating season opened on Saturday I
wilh a procession of 31 boats, containing 71 men ; three clubs were unrepresented.
Banquet to Mr T- Bracken.
The journalists of Auckland banquet Mr T. Bracken (" Paddy Murphy ") tomorrow night.
The dispute between the Marine Engineers' Society and the Northern S.S. Co. has been amicably settled ; the second engineers receive the scale of pay demanded by the Society, but a compromise was effected concerning the wages of chief engineers.
The charges against Professor Martin Swallow are proceeding at the Police Court, with closed doors. He has been committed for trial, on a charge of inciting one McLean to commit an indecent assault.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4935, 3 November 1884, Page 2
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158AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4935, 3 November 1884, Page 2
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