LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1727, 31 July 1883, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. Supposed Suicide. A max named Andrew Allen, employed by Cousins and Atkin, is supposed to have committed suicide. His hat and coat were found near the dock, and he had told a fellow-workmon they might never see him again. He presented a young lady wjth a bracelet, accompanying it with a similar remark.

Mr Russell. .Mr Thomas Russell and Dr Pollen were passengers by the Wairarapa from the South to-day.

Drowning Accident. A gumdigger named Sam Wylie was drowned at Dargaville to-day. On 'Change.

Sales : Deep Level, 4s 4d j Imperials, 43s ; Bright Smiles, 3s 6d.

The Mails. The City of Sydney, with the inward mails, left San Francisco on the 28th July, and is expected on Saturday, the ' 18th August.

f>EATH ofaCentenakian.—AtDunachton, Badenoch, on May 8, died, Margaret Warren, at the great age of 100 years. Mrs Warren, says a Dundee paper, was born in 1783, has never been out of the district, and died within half a mile of the spot in which she was born. Among the many changes she witnessed was the depopulation o? the district, for in her young days her home was surrounded by a great number of happy homesteads — something like a score of crofters then living in the immediate neighbourhood of Dunachton, all of whom were in fair circumstances, while now an almost death-ljke stillness pervades the locality. Mrs ' Warren had eleven of a family. Some of < them went to Australia, but most of them are living in Scotland. She leaves /twenty' nine grandchildren and twenty great-grandchudren.iUntil about * jyearago ;herr health, > shearing, and «memdry, were t sbund,bult about time