LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2243, 23 November 1886, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

[by tklkgraph— (iwk courespondent.] The Unemployed. Auckland, Monday Night. A mkknni. of the unemployed convened for to-day did not come off, owing, it was said, to the inclement weather. LarrikinisraTwo larrikins to-day were sent to gaol fur three months for assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty, and one youth respectably connected was let off with a fine and caution for creating a disturbance at a Salvationist meeting. The Bjnch commented upon the prevalence of lairi kinism, and declared it«> determination to put it down. A Seaman ScaldedJohn Johnstons, an engineer on the coastal steamer Kahu wan severely scalded through opening the manhole of the boiler. The steam rushed out, scalding his back, right hide and arm. The Industrial Exhibition. The Industrial Exhibition to-morrow promises to be a gieat success. Over 2000 children ha\e been at woik. Destructive Fire. Intelligence has been received of a dcs truotive tiic at Wajpu on Satm day night, whereby the Junction Store, owned by Mi J. Cook', was totally destroyed. There was no one m the place at the time, and nothing was .saved except the safe. The store was inMiied foi £!)2.\ £22r>on the building and £700 on the stock, m the United otiice, half re-inauied in the Norwich Union. Demand tor Timber. An incioa^od demand for timber hns <*et the Auckland Timber Company in full Mviug. Hitherto they have been running shoit tiine.

Tho man Mho jumped fio'n Bionklyn biMge is S<»i"R t<> be pio^ecuted, not for attiMiipting 1 to commit suii-ido, but t<n obsti noting <v j>ol\ciMii m i»i tlio diiuharg** of hi- duty, fiunt H«> iven-. ! did he \v.«ke up one «»f the olHVeii whili; propaiing foi the jump '! A London evening paper says it is reported from Canterbury, on what is said to be good authority, that the Government are prepared to concede the demand of English hop glowers that a small impoit du^y should be imposed on foreign