Auckland Items.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3281, 13 August 1889, Page 2

Auckland Items.

Auckland, August 12, An action bearing on the liability of Itoad Boards was opened at the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr': Justice Prendergast and a special jury. The action was brought by 6. G. McCrae and wife against the Managere Road Board, and was for £OOO damages. It was alleged that on the evening of May i last, the plaintiffs were proceeding along the Managere road in a drip drawn by one horse, The horse and trap came into contact with an unprotected heap ofsooria, and was overturned, and the plaintiffs were thrown to tho ground, Mrs McCrae being severely injured, The defence was that the injuries were caused through negligence on the part of the plaintiffs. Mr Theo, Cooper appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr E. Mesketh for the defendants. A good deal of evidence having been heard, the Court adjourned.

Two hundred aorog of land in {ho England district have been purchased by two vignerons from Southern France. They intend to commence grape.,growing and wmo making. A ponsignment of 1154 bales of flax was shipped to America to-day bytheJSealandia, A portion of the shipment was from Wellington and Picton, and the remainder from Auckland.

Stops are being taken for the formation of a Naval Artillery Company in Auckland, to replace the disbanded Waitemata corps, A destructive gale prevailed at To Aroha on Saturday night and Sunday. The balcony of the Club Hotel was blown away, and the exterior of the hotel damaged. The Oddfellows Hall was wrecked, as was also the house of a settler, whilst another house was greatly damaged. "Th'e'Hcv Monsignor McDonald was presented' with an address by the pupils of St. Patrick's' School, Panmure, on the occasion of his birthday.