LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1032, 5 July 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

(Special to tbo DAay Teleohai'li.) ■i 1 IiI,AMI, tlliS llllf . THE PREMIER AND THE OOSTLEY HOME In tlio courso ot a discussion at the Olmi'b lublo Aid Board, llio chairman mid tlrnl tho Premier, by his recont roforcnco to the Cosilcy Home, h:ul apparently gono out of his way to deal a blow at tho Board, and lie Imd almost begun to wonder whether the Board should not lovy a rato on local bodies for the. purpose of providing busies, etc., lo diivo (ho old peoplo about in. It seemed that everylhingpossiblo was being dono lo raise bogeys. It was only when the plague scare enmo along that the Iloilth Department was created, at a cost of something like £IOOOOO por annum, and it seemed that everything possible was being dono to m.iko the ways of tlmt department easy and tho paths of tho Charitablo Aid Boards and suoh bodies thorny. UNIVERSITY GRIEVANCE There was a discussion at a meeting of the University College on tho question ot grants. Tho acting chairman said that iliey wore wero getting less than other placi-B, and tlicy should not stand qniotly by and seo such unfair d'stributinn. It was decided to ask tho local members of Parliament lointeust themselves in the matter, and also to ask Sir Maurice O'lioi'ko to bring under the notico of tho Government tho need of a grant for the establishment of a School of Mines hero. WRECK OP A STEAMER Tho steamer Waiton, while bsing cowed from Katpara to Auckland, sank off Mangonui Heads in 80 fathoms of water, An effort was rondo to keep her nlloat, hut tho pumps got choked, Sho was owned by Mr, Jagger, of Auckland.

Lai eii Tho crow havo beon taken to Russell by tbo Ohinemuri. DISASTROUS FJIIE

A lire in Shortlaml'istreet early this inorniiii; destroyed about .£IOOO woitli of slock and machinery of Aliol, Dykes nod Co,, printer:). It also !nurnt tho rooms of Mr, Dos.wtor, chemist, and damaged the dentist's rooms of T, Y. Frost bv smoke and water, Tlio (iro is believed to havo or»inatod in Dossotor's rooms. The in simuicos art) as follows :--Brick btiiklin;;, owned by Mrs, Robertson, of Munijerc, Jjl'lOOin tlio Royal (damaged abuul .(MOO); printers' «loek and uuiihinory, XSOOU, distributed in the Viotmin i'B,"io, Norwich Union £3OO, Mtuulard I*7oo, Union and Crown .I'llOO, Now Zw'iind Guardian .IJ;j(J0, Jtoyal i'ldlO, South I'i'innh XUOO; . Dosseior, J.T25 in ine United; Frost,amountunobtainable, in tins Sun.