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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 February 1844, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Thief in a Fricut. —One day last week, a sneaking female thief managed to slip into a poor woman’s honse in the north quarter of the town du* ring her abaenoe. Supposing the coast to be all clear, she hastily rolled up the blankets of the bed, and was in the act of decamping with them, when the mother of the mistresa of the house, who had seen the whole operation from a sick bed, gave a loud scream. This might have been disregarded by the depredator, but when she also heard a bitter cry proceeding from the bundle which she carried, she threw it down iu the utmost horror and made her escape. 'lhe truth is, she had rolled up tha poor woman’s infant in her harry, but the wailing of its grandmother bad awakeued it ; and thus its timorous outory was probably the means of saving its own life, as it was dearly the saving of the blankets.

tleriet'ire was commenced, but was interrup•d in the middle of the first dialogue by the ap■earance of the roya I visitors, when a scene of rnuch mre interest took place before the curlain. The /hole of the first tier of boxes had been appropriated ) the use ot the royal party lor the various mem* ers oftheir suites. 't he first to enter the Royal box was Queen Vic:>ria A burst of cheering and clapping of hands nmedialely took place, whioh Her Majesty acnowledged. Her Majesty then sat down in the entre s< at, an old-fashoned sun-chair covered with reen silk. Queen Victoria was "attired in a silk l ess, striped with pale blue aod white, a diamond ecklace and ear-rings, and the Order of the Garter; i tier hair was a w reath of rones of 'arge dimensions wo pieces of singing, and fhe second aot of Guillatne Tell concluded the performance about eleven 'clock. The town was generally illuminated as on the ig-lit before, and the streets were crowded wilh >eople.