AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1406, 17 March 1905, Page 1

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night.

The Auckland University Students’ Association last night warned members that the Registrar of the New Zealand University had made formal protest to the Association against the conduct of students at the opening ceremony. The Association promised that it would use itß best efforts to maintain order, and an appeal was thus made to members to decorously behave in the presence of the elders of the University. A ease of an extraordinary eharaoter was brought before the Police Court yesterday morning. An elderly man named Miohael Ryan, whose bushy hair, ragged board and torn clothing gave him quite a wild appearance, was charged with vagrancy. Ryan lived in a cave between Penrose and Otahuhu, and recently, according to Sub-Inspeotor Black, he had been threatening shopkeepers with violence when they refused bis demands for food. Conatablo Curtain said accused had a regular begging round, and secured what he wanted by going into shops kept by women, who were too frightened to refuse him. This had gone on for five years, during whioh time' Ryan never worked. Ryan was sentenced to a month’s im priaonment with hard labor. A girl of thirteen, who left the Birkdale Bobool yesterday afternoon for her home in Birkenhead, two miles distant, was found four hours later iu the bush unconscious, apparently the victim of a serious assault. The police ore making enquiries. A lady who desiros her name to be unpublished has donated to tho Jubilee Blind Institute £6OO, which with Government subsidy represents £IXOO.