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

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1860, 7 June 1884, Page 3

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

r S Eggs v. Webster. .J • . Auckland, Fiid.iy Night. W> At the District Court on Monday. week Mr James Ru&sell ' w ill apply for a new trial in the action of Kggi v, We))ster, on'thc ground that the verdict returned by the "jury was against tho weight of evidence.

Accident to Major Walmsley. Major Walmsley, Manager of the Now Zealand fcjtiul Company's e&tate, sustained a seiious mjitiy a few days ;igo while attending to some of the Wood stpek. His condition was at oho time considered dangcious, but he is now considerably impioxcd, and in «i fair way to recovery.

Drowned at Sea. A Russian or Dane, n.uned Anderson, mate of the cutter Four iSisteiß, was lost overboard fiom that \cst.el between 1 and 2 a.m. yesteiday, while proceeding fiom Tiritiri to Maliui.uigi. Ho was alone on deck at the time, and when the captain came up he found him gone.

■ Changes in the Police Force. ,Ifc is likely tli.it the letionuhmcnt wjiich is -now proceeding hi the Public Seivicc peptutment-s at Wellington will affect the police force to some considerable extent. As a preliminary step in Auckland, tlnee firstclass sergeants aio to be moved from this dibtrict, and their places will be filled by a Sergt. -Major.

W The Licensing Law. The Kai angahape Licensing Comfc refused to giant a icnewal of the licen&c for the King's Arms Hotel to Henry H. I S\Vindley,and only the renewal of the license at all on condition that the house should be transferred from him to some suitable person, while they mani- ! fested a detei initiation to ab&olutcly close f theYuik Hotel for a \ariety ot icasons, one being that it "was in the immediate vicinity of a plico of woiship and two P public schooU Fmther consideiaMon of the matter ay.is adjoin ned till the 20th in-.t. In K.nangabape, as in otliei w Aidsof the4Jiiy, the ten o'clock closing t>sstetn is to be enforced

Suspicious Bankruptcy Case. A suspicious ca«e of insolvency is being iqv/e»tii:ate(l l>j tlic oihcial assignee. The bankrupt is .Samuel Joseph Monciiefi, boardiug-houso keeper of W.iiio.i, neat Obiueniutu, and his liabilities wliich amount to £37S 12s. wcie all conti acted within the compass of a yeai, his capital when 3t.utmg Lusinesb being £170. Messrs McAtthiir and Co. aie bitten to the-extent of £b"0!), and M.uin and Cq.,l of Taiuanga, are eieditois to the ainoiuit of £1.30. The only assets aie : — Book debts, estimated to piodncc £100, and leasehold int°iest in house, which is valued at £1300. Whilst tindei examination at a meeting uf bib ciedi tots, the ■kbankrupt declared that at the burning of "ilia store, he lost £400 woith of goods and i £168 in pound notes, which had been | rolled up in a paper and placed upon a shelf in a room adjoining his bedrojni. He could give no p.irticul.us, however, concerning these notes, and had no means of ascertaining their numbeis.