LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2882, 3 January 1891, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

(in Ti-:i,i:ui:.\r:i—owx cokiiksi'oxiiknt). Ai cki.axd, Lust Xi^lit. Wkdxkso.w nipfht vras as wretched as could tin wished for, and though the wind changed and the si;v cleared towards midnight yesterday sot in stormy. The effect was to spoil the excursions and amusement arrangements for New "N car s day but no change was made in respect to the races, tho attendance however was not larKe. The. Sunday-school I nion was com pelh'd to .".lundon it-i anion! demonstration, hot, each school managed to enjoy t lie Missives lintwithstnmiini: llu.; frwpinnl sliuwors. Several cxuiu'Mhih wen; ma<li\ bol, tho mni'U'Ry annowmvi] on Wednesday \vete postponed. To-:i;>y Ujc wnathnr hn* somevvhul. improved, but, there is still a hijrh wind v/ith <] shou'eiv. A number <if excmsinii'? ludd to-day. Last evening Detective lviiby arrested a man named.fas. (treenwood iu Ponsouoy en a charge of embezzling L' 7 ljelon|*in;r to tho inhabitants of the Oinaha Road District. It appears that tho accused lias occupied the dual position of chairman and clerk of the Omaha l»,oad Board for ton years. The arrest was in consequence of representsions made by the Co menl Auditor to the Police Department. Accused was remanded at the, Police Court this morniiiß, and admitted to bail. Jas. Mc< oah, a trttm-'ii-_'Kfr, was found drowned in the ivaihu Creel: yesterday. He had been diinkin™, and is supposed to hiivo missed the bridge and fallen into the creek, a distance of about twenty feet from the bank to the water. The place is a regular man-trap for a sober man on a dark tis tho bridue cannot be seen, and the banks of the creek are steep, with a clean drop. Deceased was an old Goth lieeiment man. Mf (t. Hutchison, M.H.K. for Wnitntara, was in town to-day, having arrived in connection with the action for libel instituted against him <»i account of the '' Hutchison charges." Takinc evidence commences at the Supreme Court on Tuesday next.