AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5203, 19 September 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(Peb Peess Association).

This day. The criminal calendar for October is a serious one, containing charges against eighteen prisoners, including one attempted murder, two cases of embezzlement, two of cattle stealing, two impersonations, one burglary, two breaking and entering, and one indecent assault.

The schooner Malietoa, from Timaru to Wbanaarei, with grain, has gone ashore at high water at WhaDgarei Heads. The damage is uncertain and the position critical.

Sailed : The barque Claribel, for New York, with two passengers and kauri gum valued at £18,000. >

Arrived : S.S. Suva, from Southern ports. A fire at Devon port at 4.30 thiß morning destroyed two cottages, one belonging to Mr Patterson and the other to Mr Melville. A family named Donovan, who occupied the latter house, narrowly escaped, being sound asleep while the fire was raging. The other buildings adjoinrag were saved with difficulty. Insurances on buildings destroyed : £350 in the New Zealand Office, and £50 on Patterson's furniture in the same office. The cause of the fire is unknown. There is no fire brigade in this populous town. An elderly man named John Lamont committed suicide by drowniDg himself in the Waikato river, Cambridge, yesterday. Deceased appears to have taken off his clothe 3, which were carefully folded and left on the bank, and then walked into the river. A letter was found in his house bidding good-bye to his friends, and naming his executor, and stating that the particulars of his family could be got from bis brother at Christchurch. Lamont has for some time past been suffering from religious mania.