AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3527, 27 October 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

October 27.

Both the victims of the Pokeno shooting case are likely to recover. The ball fired at the father passed through the lower part of the scalp, grazing but not fracturing the skull. It was extracted on the other side of the head. The bullet in the son's head was fired too low to touch the brain, and is lodged somewhere in the upper part of the face, but the exact locality is not yet ascertained. Both are perfectly sensible. The patricide's mother is dead. The father was formerly a draper in London, and came out with some means, intending to commence farming. The son had been engaged since his arrival with theatrical companies, going under the name of Bertie Longner. Latterly he had been engaged to a young lady at Tauranga, and it is supposed that his recent visit to his father was for the purpose of obtaining money to marry, and a refusal is believed to have led to the desperate 4ee<J. White at Taur&nga yoaogLcng.

was most absteminoue. He was not eccentric, but was very excitable. Tawbiao and Te Wheoro are expected to pilot their canoes in the great war canoe race at the Devonport regatta. An association for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act has been formed here. Application was made at the Waste Lands Board yesterday for the leaee of the foreshore south of the Manakau for the purpose of working the iron sand deposits there. In the course of the discussion which ensued, it transpired that it is intended to erect smelting works at Onehunga, and the promoters have obtained the services of a practical man from America. The Board decided to recommend the Government to grant the lease. The master and crew of the ketch Pearl, which arrived from Raratonga yesterday, have been in a sorry plight. Ten days ago the provisions ran out, and eince then the daily fare comprised one biscuit and a supply of oranges. The trip lasted thirty-four days. There were 50,000 oranges taken on board, but onethird are now unfit for the market. John Bradley, formerly Mr Fisher's slaughterman, has been lost in the bush near Dargaville for a week. Search porties are out looking for him. He was in delirium tremens. The body of a man about 40 years of age was found in the harbor yesterday. His name is unknown. The body looks like that of a seaman.