AUCKLAND.
This day.
Bewi, the great Ngatimaniapoto chief, baa been taking a great interest in the expected war ; be writes to the I*ress suggesting that the Auckland torpedo boat be called Arai te T)ru, after the Tabiwba—a sea god who formerly guarded these waters. ■"■'■■■
Three months ago the Harbour Board, being dissatisfied with their engineer, gave him six months' notice ; at a meeting held yesterday it transpired that he had. been requested to furnish two trivial reports,) and excused himself because, he"had not the time. The Board, gave him leave of absence to the end of the term, and intend appointing a new engineer at once. , Joseph Brown, a carpenter working on the railway, was struck by the buffer of an engine, which dislocated his shoulder ; he also sustained a wound on the head from the cow-catcher, and was taken up insensible.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5082, 29 April 1885, Page 2
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142AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5082, 29 April 1885, Page 2
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