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

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 2

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

Railway Reform. Auckland, Fiiday Nighl. A thousand additional signatures were obtained to day to the railway reform petition.

The late Suicide of a Native Girl. Particular received of the suicide of a native girl, thiiteen years old, at Hokianga, show that she had been living with «a young native. They intended to get mairied. and went to ask her father's consent. The father upbi aided and disowned lier and she went away, and was subsequently found dead hanging in a whare.

The Supposed Wreck. The steamer Suva has anivcl. Sh« reports no sign of the wreck reported oft the East Coast.

Chairman of the Board of Education. Professor Aldis has resigned the chairmanship of the Board of Education on the ground of ill health.

The Markets. There is no change in the produce maiket, except a reduction of 10s a ton in the puce of flour.

Buitimi cmigiation to Canada promises to be immense this season. Tin i have been found in Afi ica computed to bo o, 150 ycais old, and a cypresa in Mexico is said to have reached to still greater age. The oldest individual specimen of any species is probably the cypresa of Santa Maria del Tule, ,* the Mexican state of Oaxaca. If estimates of tree ages arc to be relied upon, the life of this venerable forest monarch may have spanned the \\ hole period of written hist ry. At last accounts it was still growing, and in 1831, when Humboldt saw it in measured 42 feet in diameter. 146 in circumference, and 382 f<*<t between the extremities of two opfositi brunches,