AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 103, 10 May 1901, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

A SEMI-MURDER. (Special to Times.) Auckland, last night. • Ex-Constable Cullimano died at Auckland Hospital yesterday from the effects of being brutally kicked by a man known as an “ oyster boy ” three years ago. It will be remembered that the unfortunate constable experienced great difficulty in his endeavor to arrest his man. Between three and four hundred people witnessed the arrest. Public sympathy, as is usually the case in street arresting in Auckland, was in favor of the prisoner. In sentencing Duffy to two years’ hard labor, Judge Conolly commented strongly on the case, and said the public who witnessed the constable being half murdered instead of assisting when called upon to do so, were really worse than the prisoner. HOMEWARD BOUND.

The i-eturned troopers belonging to the North Island, to the number of 180, will arrive at Wellington by the Monowai on Saturday. The detachment for Auckland will proceed to their destination as early as possible. Of the Tongariro’s men 30 stay at Otago, 82 in Canterbury, and the rest are expected in Wellington by the Monowai on Saturday, 133 being from Wellington, Wanganui, Napier, and Gisborne ; 19 belong to Auckland, and 25 to Nelson and West Coast. The Defence Department will accommodate such as desire in the barracks till they leave in the morning train for their homes. The Nelson and West Coast men will, if possible, be sent on immediately on Saturday. PASSENGERS FROM SYDNEY^ Among the passengers from Sydney by the Warrimoo -are Lady Ranfurly and Ladies Constance and Eileen Knox. Mr Beauchamp, of the Federation Commission, will also be a passenger. THE BOGUS KING. Tn reply to a proposal that Mahuta, the Maori King, should come to Auckland with some hundreds of his followers, with the view of making a demonstration in , honor of the Royal visit, apart from the great gathering at Rotorua, the Hon. Mr Carroll has informed the Reception Committee that the scope of his proposals do not extend outside Rotorua, but there is nothing to prevent the Committee undertaking the cost of a native demonstration in Auckland if-they choose.