LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2490, 26 June 1888, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

[liY TELEGUArii—OWN CORKKSPONDEN'T. ] Auckland, Monday. At the. Police Court, to-day, the charge of iuvon against Duncan, foriiurly an inmate of the Kohimaraina School was again remanded.

In the Suuremo C-.mrfc in the caJe Gholm.vjdely Smith v. \V. (i. Allen fos s'andei , arising out of a dispute regarding payment for uniforms of tin; Djvonport Cavalry, judgmoiil was £i ven for £10 and costs. 'In "t!i(! wise ugainst the Auckland land syndicate, the other five defend mts confcsHcd judgment, hence the decision against Isaacs who had left the colony. Gnry and (lasparini, the French convicts, were further remanded for eight days to-day. James fioonaii, for embezzlement at TeKuiti, was remanded fora week to Tβ Awamutu. Mr O'Meaglier for prisoner, obtained bail.

A man named Ueorge Hansen has been seriously injured in the spine at Monatairi mine, Thames, and was taken to the Hospital. The installation of the Ara L-idge to-day was attended by over 1.00 Masons. The proceedings passed off will) great ec'at. At the Supreme Court in the caso Bank of New South Wales aeainst the Auckland Investment Company (Messrs (1. Aitkin, A. Kidd, R. Vj. Isaacs, Hugh Campbell, (i. Fraser and James Mason), an order was made against Isaacs, who has left the colony. The claim was for £2,745. Tliu inquest on the woman Croot, who died from vomiting after taking the Canadian doctor's medicine, was adjourned for a week-, when the result of the post mortem will be known.

•Vrrived : Mission schooner, Southern Cross.

In the libel action, G. White v. Metcalfe, the judge non-suited the plaintiff, as the letter containing the libel was produced in a mutilated state.

A man named Robert Oossnr is supposed to have been killed at Papakm-a. He was working in the bush with a timber jack, which is missing. The presumption is that a lag fell on him and carried him into the creek.

A girl named Elizabeth Beaton who was severely injured by burning at the shirt factory in the Great North Road, and waa sent to the hospital, succumbed to her injuries yesterday morning. The deceased was warming glue at a fire, when her clothes caught and before the flames could be extinguished she was terribly burnt about the buck and legs.