Damage to Shipping by Gale. Great Loss at Onehunga. Floods at Grahamstown. Land Sale, Opening of the Supreme Court. AUCKLAND. Monday evening.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 6 July 1875, Page 2

Damage to Shipping by Gale . Great Loss at Onehunga. Floods at Grahamstown. Land Sale, Opening of the Supreme Court. AUCKLAND. Mon day evening.

The damage b^ the gale is ]S»etty widely distribated amongst the shipping. It is roughly estimated at £2,000. At Onehaaga^GiVbona^barf and 2,000 feet of timber were washed* anaV * Buckland's cattle punt was upset, and 37 fiigVwerti drowned. At the Thames, Grahamstown and Shortland were flooded, and considerable damage was done .£ Goodwinjs storeY A land sawJK^hs fleld\lrjs^3te % tion fo-day. One hundred acres s GeJ'Wjjfe sold at Is per acre, and focty* acres at Takapuna at 5s per acre. The Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court were opened to-day. Mr Justice Gilles, in his charge to the Grand Jury, commented on the lightness of the Calendaj^and^heuibsence otembezzlement, forgery, and falsepKete,ncek wCtolr formerly composed so large a p^fcioiv of tHK dkjchdj^ The cases were chiefly burglary, houses-breaking, and larceny, and did not present any features of difficulty. The charge was very brief. The Grand Jury found true bills against James Dunn on live charges of burglary. He was convicted by the Petty Jury on the first charge, but sentence was deferred until the others were heard. - ' ** Arrived the-ffywera froii\ the South. Sailed, Phoebe. V "- -%