AUCKLAND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2050, 27 August 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND NOTES.

[lUO*l OIK OWN ('<»!>■!. MMMifM J AU'M \M>, Wednesday. Amo\(.m the p.issengeis liy th? i.M. •» ■>. Aiisti.th.i was Mi Willnm (Yntei, who ai lives heie n i the acot edited agent nf the Oceanic Steamship Company, 01 Mess], Jno. 1). Kpieckels and liio-. lini 1 Mr Center comer* nrmed with the mcesnaiy authority finin the enntpmy to negoti tr. a f.ihtor hoi vice than the existing one. It is tho inleution, if the coiupiuy named n hiicc-'-sfnl, to place on tho *<eivic<s two vessels that are ut present employed be tween Honolulu and San l''ranci-co, \i/., tlio Alanieda and tin* Manposa. They are new steel vessel-, of .'lOOO tons each, of good «peed .uid welt fitted tip. On Satuidav Mi Center a ftci obtaining hum Mi S. IJ. Risx, tho chief p istmaster here, the nocess.uy infoim.ttion as to the terms of the new contract, made arrangements for going to Wellington, and left yestord ly by tho Rotoiu.i. On dit that at a confciencc of \o]nntper ofticoiH with Colonel Sn (Jeorgo Whitmoro the ontlines of a t-liam ligot on a Jaige sc.ile to ,tiike place on or about Xmeinbei '.Itli, the Piinco of WalcVs birthd.iy, wuro iirmnged. The details woie left to be Mibsei(uentlv Avoiked out It is haidth.it the scheme is tho laigest, winch it has e\er been possible to anangeand put into opei i tion heie. A steamer will tiy to enter Auckland harbour in theicaily morning; this willbiing into play the big guns at Fort Cautley which will oppo-o the entiance of the attacking hteamoi. The emcioncy of the Mtbiu.u ino mines will.iNo probably be tested. A force is then to attempt to effect a landing ut Tumaki at a place duly selected, and then to match into Auckland. The defending army will take up a position to inteiccpt their movements, and the line of defence w ill extend from St. John's College to Onehunga. To cover bueh an extended line of defence, it will be necessaiy to employ the whole of the Auckland companies including the honorary coips and tho Thames companies The command of tho defending force will be in the hands of Col. Lyon, whilst Captain Le Roy is to lead the unadeis. Colonel Str(!eorge Whitmoie and Major Boddatn instead of taking any active part in tho command, -\\ ill simply act as uinpue<<. A meeting of the Auckland cleigy of the Anglican Chinch was held at Hishopscouit ycsteiday afternoon, in oidei to make aiiangements with refeienco to tho forthcoming mission One of the nii-siouei's, the l£ev. Mr Bodington, attended the meeting ; the Rev. Mr Mason, the second inn«iuiiei, was absent thtough illness. The movement has for its ob|tct the strengthening of the .spnitu.i! life of the Chutch. . Theie \v,n a good deal of dUouxsjoj) on the plan of pioceduro, and it was decided to commence woik with aconfeienco of cleigy, to bo held in S, Matthew's schoolroom on Wednesday at 11 o'clock. A gicat deal of inteiost is being t.ikcn in tho affair, .and a lnige number of woikeis havo already been engaged in distiibnting papers aonncrted with tho mission. Thoso havo boen doli\eie<l at every hoinc in the purixh. That thorn in much sco))e in Auckland for thoso gontleiiiph's operations goes without snyuig, an witness the profane expressions one continually hears at every sheet corner and the lampant spintof lanikinism so unhappily |)rev.ilent in this fnircity. Tlio Fteethonght people arc also straining oiorv lii'ive to dis seminato their doctriuui } in uorald .M.'issoy they havo ;i powciful ,-ulvouate, and their weekly organ, tlio Nationalist, is mom pushed than any othoi pa pel in .\uuk!a»d. Tin 1 shaiem.uket, though not ([into no brisk as it was, yet shows si<;tn of iccoxcrj', and the iemilt of the La Monte hyhtom is cagcily looked for.

" I nm horc a letter dirrrtod to the prcttirsl woman in the hou-e," announced the T'rcsidrnteflß of a woman's convention. Four reporters on the front seats were ti.unpled to death in the rush for the Sneakei's itaud,