LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2648, 2 July 1889, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

(I'.Y TKUiOUAPH.—OWN COIUMCsrONDENT.)

Auckland, Monday. Tun case nf the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company v. Josiah Eirtb was called at the Supreme (Joint tins morning to have iudpmunt entered upon and hoar the decision of th>s Court in the legal argument heard on Ifiidav last. Mr Button stilted that in the action Firth v. the Lnan Company a discontinuance had been entered, and in the other case judgment had been entered by confession. His Honour, therefore, eiltered judgment for the Loan Company on both claims and on the counter claim. At the S'lpreilin Court this forenoon, tin eise of Jennie We->tm\y v. S. (looseuiau, claim .i; 200 damages for alleged slander, was called, and Mr liutton said that it had been air. nigral tli.M. this case should bewithdrawn, on (he i-cadiiiß ■>[ an <ii>ob>Ky by defendant. MrCooiier said tlur ri'-feiidint, n\mi\ iniikiiiß inquiry into the matter, found then: was no reason to inipuh; improper conduct, :iivi did what every lioiiomable man would have dune tinder the ciraimHaiicv.s. Mr Cooper then read an ample ap-10-y. The iictiou was tlioroforc withdrawn, the usiendant payiiiH costs. At the Folicj Court, Micliae! Tlyan, wlm committed the outr.-igf. at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, was committed for I rial. The City Club Hotel was auctioned today, realising W,:>oo, and w.i* purchased by the late Mr Croinbie's ri!|)rr,s.:ntai iv;s. Thu island trip of the >■■.*. lliohmond, which arriv-'il this luornintr was more than 11-.il illy nnoventfnl, and lim; w.-.ithor was f.xpi-.riV'iici'd l!irnii::h"ut. Tlievo. is no news of iuiportuiiiM to h.uid from fie islands.