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

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1764, 25 October 1883, Page 2

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

Sale of Surrey Hills Estate. Auckland, Last Night. The sale of Surrey Hills estate biought the lazge.st attendance theie has been at any sale in Auckland for yeai!». The corner allotment at the junction of Ponsonby and Great North Roads was knocked down to Mr Murdoch, Bank of New Zealand, for £3G a foot; the allotment at the corner of Richmond and Ponsonby Roads £40 a foot, same buyer. Other Ponsonby Road fi outages ranged from £8 to £10 10* per foot; on the Groat North Road fiom £5 5s to £8, and in the back streets from £3 10.s to £4 &j.

The Waverley Hotel. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the now celebrated case of the removal of the Waverley Hotel license from the block of buildings being pulled down to temporary premises at Powell's Dining Rooms, Judge Gillies ruled that the permit granted by the Licensing Committee was bad, and .su&- I tamed the magistrate's decision, and the conviction of the landlord. foi» a hreaqh of the Licensing Act. By this deoision the Waverley Hotel license lapses altogether, and a new license is barred by the advei^se poll taHen some time ago,

Bankruptcy. In the Bai\k.ruptoy Court, the trustees report in the. estate of Handry and Whitely favourable, but the creditors having recommended a discharge, the judge granted it.

Promissory Notes and the Natives. In the District Court, in a suit on a promissory 1 note given - by Sydney' Taiwhanga, plaintiff was non-suited under the act, of. ; XBB3, which requires that such notes must 'be'interpreteci into Maori. vl •' - i

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