AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 818, 5 February 1903, Page 1

AUCKLAND NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association— AUCKLAND, last night. The Northern Company are advised that the Glouelg has been floated. She has sustained no damage. At a meeting of the Premier’s Presentation Committee, the treasurer stated that £SBO had been collected for the National Purse in Auckland, and after expenses wero paid, £(340 remained. It was resolved that when the date of the Premier’s visit is ascertained the general committee arrange for the presentation of a testimonial in the shape of a purse of sovereigns. The Premier wires stating that he oxpocts to bo in Auckland on the lfith 1 7fl.

or Utii. The balance-sheet of the Auckland Savings Bank shows that deposits increased by £30,055 to £S‘i9,*3Ss. The reserved surplus protit fund amounts to £50,000. Tho Australian Institute of Mining Engineers mot to-day. Delegates wore present from the Australian States. Mr 11. H. Gordon presided Routiuo business was transacted, and the meeting then adjourned to the Council Chambers, where the Mayor, Mr Kidd, gave a civic welcome. An excursion round the harbor was held this afternoon. In the Supreme Couru Geo. layior and John [Kennedy, for breaking and entering and theft, received a four years’ sentence. Sixteen prisoners, remanded from the lower courts for sentence, were dealt with in tho Supreme Court today. John Thomas Cording, for forgery at New Plymouth, was sentenced to three years imprisonment; and Erancis Norman Johnston, a returned trooper, aged 19, for stealing £27 from his uncle at Stratford, 12 months. . , , ,y . The mining engineers resolved tHat the headquarters be at Melbourne, and that the next meeting be held at Sydney in 1901,