LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1951, 8 January 1885, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

[BY TELEOBVFII. — OWN" CORRESPONDENT.]

Burglary. AI'CKLVND, Wednesday Night. Mr <"Jir,h.i' butclicr'sshop was broken into lj&t night, but the thieves only obtained a few coppers.

Supreme Court The judge in his charge to the Grand Juiy said the calendar with which they had to deal on this occasion w«s an unusually hea\ y one. there being an exceptionally large number of offences chargeable against, a very large number of pusoners. There were thirty - aix offences against twenty-six prisoners, an amount he had never before seen at any sessions of the court. With one or two exceptions, however, the offences were not a veiy serious character. Joseph Simpson, labourer, was found guilty of stealing £21 at Paeroa and recommended to mercy. Sentence deferred.

Cruise of the Hinemoa. The Hinemoa arrived at Auckland about mid-day, and after taking on board Mr Tole and Mr IVnnyfathcr, the Go\einor's private secretaiy, left again for Waiwera, where a Minibteual consultation w ill be held. Dunne his brief stay in town Captain Fairchi ld and men weie very reticent, and intimated that they would piobably return from Watwcia to Wellington diiect. Enough was gleaned, however, by that process of stuffing round peculiar to leporters, to prove that \\hate\er hitch may have oc juried in the arrangements original destination of \ essel \\ as some moi c distant pott. It appeals that five mcmbeis of the constabulary who were brought from Wellington are all well armed. A case of Hi stand of arms with ammunition was placed aboard at Wellington, when the ciew was recruited by the addition of several hands. Sufficient stores for a long voyage were also shipped. His Excellency's, pm ate secretary, who citne up pos>t haste fiom Wellington, professedly for a few days stay, brought up a large amount of surplus luggage which Sip left .it the railway station, and had shipped on boaul the Hinemoa. The trunks did not consist exactly of summer changes for Auckland weather, or they would have found their way to the private secretary's appartments at the club. When in lown Cipt K.urchild telegiaphcd to the bay to ascertain if he could get 200 tons of coal at once and also inquired whether the vessel could be docked tomorrow, and was answered in the negative. Though these extraordinary piepaiatious point unmistakeably to a hlebustering expedition in the islands, it is thought for certain reasons that the bubble will burst without floating, and that, like the famous general who marched his army up the hill and marched them down again, the Hinemoa and her bellicose crew will return to Wellington fiom Waiwera. Nothing, however, will be definitely known until after the Cabinet consultation to-morrow, and it is still on the cards that her destination will be Samoa or the New Hebndes.

Settling on the Races. The settling over the Auckland Summer Meeting took place to day, when the following amounts were paid *way : — J. Pilbrow, £979 ; Bates, £700 ; Capt. Russell, £432 ; Marshall, £425 ; Weston, £:r>2 ; Kobcitson, £292; Gallagher, £242 ; Bobbett, £1,10; Allwill, .£100; OBrien, £100 ; Frottitt, £100 ; Sommerville, £S9 ; Brimbleoombe, £25 ; Walters, £1S ; Lumsden, £30. Total, £4,084. Loss of a Musket Colt. The Musket — Pearl Ash colt injured at Onehuiiga had to be destroyed. The Negro Shooting Case. The man shot in Darby-street is doing w ell at the Hospital,