AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5222, 13 October 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Last night. The Zealandia has arrived from Sydney. Her passengers for Auckland are—Mr and Mrs Dion Boucicaalt, Mr and Mrs Grigson, Mr and Mrs Maudsley, Mr and Mrs Clayforth and child, Messrs D. L. Murdoch, A. Clayton, Skinner, Coughey, J. Hodgson, T. Allett.T. W. Hibbard, S. Thompson and brother, A. McCorney, Dr W. G. Goffe, the Rev. Haskell, and 17 in the steerage.

This day. Lieut. Wilfred Powell, the newly* appointed English. Consul for the South Sea Islands, arrived with his wife and family per Aorangi. He will hare charge of all the Islands, with headquarters at Samoa, proceeding thither by the Janet Niccol. He is instructed to endeavor to cultivate friendly relations with the German and American authorities, and the citizens on the Islands. He ia entrusted with large and confidenlialjpowers by the Government, and will travel much among the Islands, and report at length to the Imperial authorities on all matters affecting the present condition and future prospects of the Islands. He is author of 11 Wanderings in a wild country, or three years among the cannibals of New Britain," having been on that station for a number of years, and made a survey for the Admiralty of the coasts of. New Britain. He has also been for a long time connected with the Foreign Office.

Sailed: Duobess of- Argyle, for San Francisco, via Newcastle. Arrived : Freetrader, from Ly tteUojk_ -,„_,.„. - arrived here by the Zealandia, and leaves on Thursday for J)unedin, where he opens for a season.

The. Diocesan Synod of the Church of England opens to-morrow.

J. C. Statsbury, q, seaman of the Aorangi, was arrested on thn wharf last night with 20lbs of tobacco in his possesion. He was drunk, and said he had taken the tobacco ashore to get it sold, but failing to find a purchaser, was returning with it to the ship. Lateb. Statsbury, quarter-master on the Aorangi, was charged with smuggling tobapco, jind sentenced in the Police Court to pay £50 (?) and costs.

All the miners of the E'amo colliery have struck work against a reduction in wages.

Mrs Edith O'Gorman Auffray, an " escaped nun," brought to the colony by the' Orange Organisation, lectured on " Convent Life '• to a large audience last night.