AUCKLAND.
May 23. Anotber robbery bas taken place in the City Council offices, a contractor's deposit of £7 having been abstracted from the tender box. The circumstances point to some employee as the culprit. An old man named Davidson has been found dead on the Kaiapara railway. The engine-driver saw a dark object on the me, and he stopped the engine and put
tb breaks kown, but he could not stop thti engine tili it was twenty yards past tho soot. On returning he found the »a?.u Davidson with his arm completely re : (-red, but the body, siDgularly, was quite cold, and no blood issued from the vound. The .old man was in the habit of walking along the line to his son's house, and it is supposed that he fell dead during the journey. He was 75 years old.
Alfred Wood, a son of Dr Wood, with a friend, was .returning from a drive on Sunday evening, when the'buggy struck a stone, throwing Wood out. He was picket up unconscious and taken to the hospital, and his life is despaired of. It is supposed that he has sustained concussion of the brain.
The board of governors of the Grammar School to-day decided on the conditions to be communicated to the English commissioners delegated to appoint a headmaster at £700 per year, and increased the fees for the upper school from £8 to £10
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3090, 23 May 1881, Page 3
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234AUCKLAND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3090, 23 May 1881, Page 3
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