AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4994, 14 January 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Arrived: Wairarapa, from Sydney. Passengers: Judge Fawcett, Mis 9 Fawcett, Miss liobinson, E. M. Bond, J. Zieg ler, Mr Maxwell, Mr Slade Brown, Mrs and Miss George, Messrs Hallenstein, J. P. Gardiner, Brown, F. Deacon, F. H. Deacon, McPhinn, W. Beaumont, C. P. Newcombe, S. Lee, Wholgemuth, J. Bell, J. 0. Kemington, Buck, H. Smith, A. Campbell, E. Campbell, J. D. Brown, Churchward,' Burgess, Eev. Bishop Luck, Hon. W. Brookes, and Mrs Brookes, Miss Deacon, Eev. E. Wissell, Eev. G. Areguy, Eev. O. Egan, Miss Newcombe, Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Hunt, Mrs Buchanan, Mrs D. Jones For Gisborne : Mr P. Carey. For Napier: Miss B. Neiderhauser. For Lyttelton : Miss G. Scarr, Mrs P. Scarr, Mr Hauraham. For Dunedin: Mr J. Higgs, Mr Bremand, Mr Jerome. The steerage passengers numbered 48.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company to-day the report showed that after making provision for all ascertained losses to date, carrying £25,000 to the reserve fund (which, with the re-insurance fund, now stands at £225,000), and paying an interim dividend of 3s per share in July last, there remains a balance of profit amounting to £22,089 2s 7d. It was resolved to pay a dividend of 3s per share, which absorbs £15,000, leaving £7,089 2s 7d to be carried forward to next half-year. The naked body of a man, apparently only recently drowned, was picked up by a waterman at Shelly Beach, Ponsonby, to day. It is as yet unrecognised.