LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3003, 13 October 1891, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

(L'.V TKLKORAI'II.—OWN CORUKHI'ONDKNT.) Auckland, List is'ieht. Mil AliiiKUT Eiiwaiuj CiLOVEii .ui'l Dr. Walker were nominated as candidates fur the South Ward in tho City Council. Gourde Underbill appeared before Mr Bishop. R.M.,at WbaiijMrei, on Sitnrday, on a charge of hiivinti in his at I'oroti a plant uuitsible for the distillation of spirits. Tlio Bench inflicted a line of £100, or I' 2 months' imprisonment, and tho plant ivnd-15 bottle* of whisky and aboat 15 gallons of wort found on the premiss were confiscated. Underbill is a coloured man, and tho premises aio situated about 10 miles from Whanaarei. Information was leceived this afternoon by Inspector Broham that the chart:'', against tho father and stepmother of tho lad George Thomas, whose hody was exhumed at Hakam, was proceeding to-day baforo Messrs T. Coates and V. Stielline Clark, J.l's. Dr. Kins:, of Auckland, is uivintf evidence, nnd Dr. Monntiine, of Maiingatoroto, is also in attendance. Tlmre has arrived here a .schooner, cdlnd the Pitcairn, owned by the General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, whose headquarters aro at Battle Creek, Michigan. The vessel was constructed specially for mission purposes in the Pacific in their belief. She brings Mr and Mrs J'etts as missionaries. Drum, the colehratod burglar, died yesterday iu Mount Kden Gaol,