LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3016, 12 November 1891, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

(I3V TELEGRAPH.— OWN COBBBSPON'DKNT.) Auckland, Last Night. Mh Mkaks, bookseller, died suddenly today of typhoid fever.

At a meeting (if the Northern Railway Laaguo this afternoon, telegrams received from Ministers were rend. They were gpnerallv unfavourable to the propns.il to cut a bridlo track from Stratford to the Poro-n-taroa tunnel, on the ground that the expense w.mld be not less than t'loo per mile and the work would be u.seles.->, this amount of inonoy not being available. Mr McMillan expressed an opinion that the Loagne Rhould urge the Government to have a Rood track made, by which cittlo could be driven over the country between Stratford and Waikato. Hitherto the League had boen asking the Government to rrake a track, to cost £10 per milo, simply tn let them see tho country thoy proposed to open up. The Minister for Lands evidently did not understand what was required. He (Mr McMillan) thought the matter should be put fully before the Premier on his arrival in Auckland in n month hence. It was suggested that a track six feet wide would meet requirements, and a resolution was passed directing the secretary to write to the Premier, urging him to have this matter taken in hand without delay.

In the estate of L'ltiis Possinneskie,tailor, the official assignee reported that the estate should realise 11s 6d in the £. The treditors resolved to accept a composition of Us 3.1.