AUCKLAND NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1765, 5 June 1906, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS

(Per Pices Association.)

Auckland, last night. The steamer Muritai had a perilous experience through her tail shaft breaking just after sho crossed the Manukau bar outward bound, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Both anchors were dropped. The weather was dirty and dark, and rockets were fired. At 10 o’clock the steamer Tarawa took the disabled vessel in tow and steamed sea-

ward for a time, then beck through the

south ohanncl. About the middle of tbe channel the towline patted. Smart work averted a disaster, and the steamers reached Onehunga wha f safely on Sanday morning. The Muritai had a very narrow esoape, and if the anobors had not held tbo steamer mutt have gore ashore. Some smart work was done by the Auokland police yosterday morning, Four plsoes where Bly grog selling is suspected were raided, and a quant ty of liquor, consisting principally of beer nnd whiskey, was found in one plaoe. No less than twenty persons were found in the promisee, and in another oifo a dozen. Their capture was so complete that they at once recognised esoape wob impoßtible, and quietly submitted, exoept one man, who succeeded in getting over a 7ft wall and eeosped. The names of all found on the premises were taken for the purpose of ovidepoe. Prooeediogß will follow, The Supreme .Court septenoed Wm. Small, for receiving stolen property, to two'years, and Bernard W. IrwiD, for breaking and enteiiag at Stratford, to one year. Tbe Auckland Chamber of Comm.rco ha? applied to the New Zealand Exhibition Committee, and has been granted, one full bay for the Auckland provinoe, to inolude Waikato and Bry of Plenty i exhibits. i

Considerable anxiety is felt concerning the small steamer Energy, which left Whitianga for Auckland last Tuesday with passengers, and has not since been beard of.