LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2970, 28 July 1891, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

(■V TKI.BGIt.U'II -OWN COItUESI'ONDENT.) Auckland, Last Night. At tlin Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Connolly gave iin important judfrmont in bankruptcy. Ho ruled (1) that a wastes creditor was not entitled to include in his preferential claim any sum for wages in lieu of notice ; (2) that if any such claim be niado it must be inside under Section 118 of the Bankruptcy Act, anil the amount assessed in the manner there directed and proceeded for as an ordinary debt. At the Police Court to-day, a respeetablelooking young man named Joseph William Kennedy, alias Juseph Watson Kennedy, was committed for trial on several charges of having forged and utterud valueless cheques. The cheques had been civet) to tradesmen, anil goods and change obtained.

An unusually largo quantity of potatoes has arrived duriiif, the last few days from tho East Coast, elnefly for local consumption. Tlio fehnonnrs Marmion, Spray, and Dnnudin arrived front Napier with full loads, and a large shipment was brought up from the Kast Coast by the Rotonuliana to-day. Further shipments are on the way. Tho e.:>. ifannt Nicoll, which anivei this morning from Westpurt, reports that yesterday afternoon, when off the Civalkvs, near Whangaroa, on the northern coast, she passed a lareo full-rigged ship heading south. Lt is niMst piohable that the vessul will be tho Pi.iUo (Captain Sutherland), fully duo horn from London, as she is !)(> days out to-day.