AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3516, 14 October 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

October 14,

Another" attempt is to be made to utilise the iron sand deposits on the West Coast, near Manukau Heads. A smelting establishment is to be erected at Onehunga. The City Council propose, with the permission of tbe Government, to build a Lock Hospital and Female Reformatory on the hospital reserve. It is contemplated, if Sir George Grey and the Auckland Institute are agreeable, to place Sir George's library recently given to the city in the Institute temporarily, the City Council defraying the expenses of arranging for the accommodation of the works.

A pair (aged about 23), who had eloped from Sydney—the man single, but the woman married —were traced hereby tbe mother and sister of the wife. They endeavored to get the wife to return to her husband, but the tears and entreaties of the gay Lothario prevailed upon her to stay. The mother cabled to Sydney, and the husband put the law in motion, the police receiving information as to certain property of his (the husband) alleged to be in the possession of the couple. As a warrant was about to be issued the wife yielded, and she returns by the first steamer to Australia with her mother. The man resided in Sydney and expected shortly to fall into a considerable sum of money from England.