LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The s.s. Takapuna. Auckland, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1757, 9 October 1883, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The s.s. Takapuna. Auckland, Last Night.

Thk Union Company's despatch boat Ta.ka.inna ai rived at Hobait last night, and le.ive.-. for Dunedin to-day. She left the Cape on tlio 11th Saptemlwr, making the pa-j.s.ige in 24 d.iyb.

The Late Football Dispute, A Wellington correspondent having rofeiro«lth>» football dispute ovei the interpi ovmcial match t>) the Town and Country Journil in Sydney, that paper declares the match dr.i \ n.

Supreme Court. The chaige of stubbing 1 preferred against tli!"'o Kanaka, in the Auckland' Hotel y.iul, was not su>t lined, tho juiy returning \ vcidict of " Not guilty."'

The Diocesan Synod. The opening service and address of the Bishop took pucs to-day. In tho course of his sp-uch, the Bishop said tho Synod v> mid 1)5 intoio^fcud to know that there are now in nfotcrin" fco tho Maori population of the diocjse 13 clcijynnn and 1.">5 catechi«ts of tho native ia,cj; and that their Maori church "• uunibci 41, built almost entirely at the co-.tof thocon^re^itions worshipping in them. It v.astube hoped th.it in tho com Noof a few a c u-s, with the disappearance of all ill-feeling between tho Maoiis inhabiting eountt y b )t\\ een W.iikato andT.iranaki and theii J^mopean fellow subjects, a satisfactoiy li'poit may bj ]>ru->uutocl to tho Synod of the Chinch's woik m that evten.si\e di-.liict. In lofeiencu to those native tribe-- chiefly the following resolution was passed by the (General Synod in April labt : — " The Synod calls upon members of the Chinch throughout the ecclesiastical pro- \ ince to make special efforts foi recovery to faith of those portions of the Maori Church wind) smce the \\ ar have lapsed into indiffeience oi false leligion."

Land Sale. At the .sale of RogaiiYille suburban sections to-ddy good prices were realised.