LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1135, 2 November 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

(Special to tho Daily Tklkohaph.) Adokland. this day. CUSTOMS RETURNS. Tun Customs duties for October totilled £70,006, an increase of X' 5374. Tho heer duly totalled X'lo33| an increiiso of XIIS. HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS At a special meeting of tho Auckland Harbour Hoard a resolution against compulsory pilotage wits carried, and (ho matter of pilotago was referred toacoinmiitco with a viow of arranging a suitable residence fur tho Board's pilot and crow, so that they may bo easily available whon required. Intimation was rec ived that the Government liugmeei -in-Chief had finally approved of the plans of tho Auckland harbour improvements, which had now been signed hy the Govcriior-in-Council A minority of tho members urged that the opinion of Messrs Napier. Bell and Forgnson (engineer to the Wellington Har hour Board) should be got, but it was staled that boih those gentlemen had llllollicinlly expressed their opinion in favour of thu plans. Finally it was decided, by bix volts to three, to proceed with the workCHILD BURNED TO DEATH An accident, resulting in tho death of the nine-year-old daughter of Mr John Taylor, of Kaipara Flats, occurred on Sunday. While the parents wero ongaged outside tho little girl was sitting by tho fiio, and her dress ciinio in contact with the (lames, She ran out to hor parents, but was so badly burnt beforo tholl lines wero extinguished that alio succumbed.