LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT] Mr La Monte's Process. AUCKLAND, Friday Night

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2012, 30 May 1885, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT] Mr La Monte's Process. AUCKLAND, Friday Night

Tllh committee appointed at a public meeting jcstonliy, ie Mr La Monte's jjold sating appiritus met at the Clnmhur of Commeice today, .ml a sul) coni'intteo was appointed to en mass for stippoit. It is »ini»t» sted that a coin pi«V with .1 cental o( £(i0,0!)0 he floated Mr Li Monte modified h»s proposiU consideiably to meet committee's w islirs. The proposal as it at present stuils ia thi-<: — Imm-diate cipital re<iuitv !, £1000, to be p.ud to Mr LiM ••i*e on receipt of fornace and applia i jo-., p.iymeut of balance, £1)000, to extend over a period of eight months ; Mi Li\l<-nte to k<vp the plant going successfully <>3 ilays, ai.d pay all charge* foi .'5.) days, the expenses of the second 30 d iys t> he home hy t!ie company, Should the attempt to foi m a com pan} fall tin (i i piixntfindiuliMl^ in the city are pu-prel to tike tlio nuttei up Re tests of Tj Aro'.iA oiv a'»d tailings, Mr LuMonfc st)m ffu« yir>'d h t'Diinoittly satiaf.iotoiy to him«elf, hut lie does uot consider himself at lihi"rt\ to diiclode actual li^nics ti itil Mi Filth returns to Auckhnd. Sudden D9ath. Charles Hoy, ag.-d .")"> veil.*, dropped de.id in the yard of tli • CV.teiioM Hotel, Otahuhu, on Wcdncs 1 iy, ,ibout five o'clock. He had been di inking Licensing Committee. The .limn. il meeting of the licensing committee for AncUl.md Noith district takes place on Monday next, and the clerk, Mr Stoney, has, at the instance of the committee, issued notices to the licensees of six hotels to the effect tliat objections will be taken to the renewal of their licenses. The grounds of the objection are various, including Sunday trading, insufficient accommodation, and " not required in the neighbourhood." The prescribed hotels are the Governor Brown, Empire, Clanricarde, Wharf, Cosmopolitan, and the Shamrock. The Macgregor. The steamer Macgregor has been raised and flouted into the lion Accord harbour, where »he was safely reached. The Markets. Butter, fresh, Is 3d ; butter, salt, 8d to 9.^1 (scarce) ; cheese, good factory, 5d to 6^d; Canterbury do., 4]d to b\ ; eggs, per dozen, Is 9d ; lard, in bladders, 7d ; bacon and hams, provincial, 6d to 8d ; hams, Sd to 9d ; Canterbury bacon, in cloth, 9'» d; bacon and hams, in equal numbers, 9i'd (scarce).

An old lady, being asked to subscribe for a newspaper, declined on the ground that when she wanted news she manufactured it herself. A qhack doctor says in his advertisement : "loan bung hviug witnesses to prove the efficacy of my pills, which is more than anyone in my line can do." An' exchange says that lecently a New Yoik policeman got drunk on duty. We did not know that New Yoik policemen were fond enough of duty to become intoxicated with it. Statistics show that 100,000 people are killed by whisky, where one person is kdled by a mad dog. And j T et almost everybody would rather tackle a glass of whisky than a mad dog. A stump speaker in America, in dcnliog with the "modern physical degeneracy of women," exclaimed, "We must take good care of our grandmothers, for we shall never get any more. " An article con ta mint: a dozen hints on how to take care of a hoi se is going the rounds of the press, but there is not one hint as how to net the homo. Robert Smith, bi other of Sydney, and familiarly called " Bobus " was a lawyer and e\-idvocate gene-al, and hap pened ou one occasion to be engaged in nn argument with an excellent physician touching the merits of their respective prote^bions. " You must admit," urged Pr. X , " that your profession does not make angels of men." "No," was the reply, " there you have the best of it ; yours certainly gives them the first chance." W.ilker's Gully RiiJge is not safe for wheeled traffic We direct attention to the alteration in the .id\ crt isement of the Melbourne Drapery Corap.inv com erninij thi* H irmltnn branrh. We dir«'ct the att'i'ion of settlers in the Lower W.nk.ito I)i->triit to thi- i xti-nsue sale of live and dead ktock, furniture, le by Mr John j Knox, at the Kovil s£a I Hotel, Kangirm, on lue>.day next the aJvortuemenc appears I another column^ ,