LATEST TELEGRAMS. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, Last Night.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 9, 4 August 1883, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, Last Night.

Late last evening a m in John Carrol, wlk. <lviSuribod himself as a farm.. i r, residing at, Pukekolie, reported to the Police tlmt he' •had been drinking- at the Black Bull Hotel in Albert street, between -.3'. p.m. and 8 .p.m. yesterday, and that about the lattor 'hour he proceeded to the urinal attached ttf'ille ,hotel, when he- vyti followed by fojir-ortfiv^ men who knocked him down, one fellow holding him by Ujo throat while the others- searched all his pockets Froth Ijirt trousorV pockets they took three €1 notes, but he known neither the numbers nor thp bunk by which thoy were issn -d. D -tective Hughes succculi'd in tracing Albert- Wright, one of the, men who had followed Cirrol, to a brothal in fitizabeth street about midnight. , Wright I showod fifth t, but was capiiired u'id iocKed up. Ou being 1 seurohed'lkrwaN Louud to be in possession of, 19s. Jv'Enrly, this morning- amth3r of the ofEenderw, named David Home, was arrested by 'Do- ,

toctive Twohey. A man named Rynn was subsequently locked up, and with Wright and Hornd Jt appeared as prisoners at the Police Cot|rt this morning, and, on the application pf Serjeant VVhito, «vere remanded for.ejgh't jlays. ' ' The first annual' poultry show in connection with the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association', opened this afternoon in Buckland'a woolwhed. There are a large number of entries. A pigeon match took place tb-dny, the course being from Mercer to Auckland, distance 40 miles. Cornwell's Oman Push a won, arriving at 52 minutes past 1 o'clock, while Batger's bird, which was next, reached town at 12 minutes past 2. Sydney Taiwhanga was granted prohil-iw tory order to prevent Auckland holelkeepera from supplying his wife, Sarah Ann Taiwhanga, with liquor. , For a clerkship in the Board' of Education, £80 a-yuar, there w.ore 53 applications. v ! No traceß have been discovered as yet of boys who absconded from the Training School, and stole a boat, ft is feared they have met with an accident. The boat has not been recovered.

SHARE MAKKET. Sales : Imperials, 545 ; Deep Level, 4s 3d; Smiles, 4b ; Colonists,, 5s (kl : New Find, 4s 6d ; Hand of Friendship, 3s. GJSJDoaNE, Last Niisht. The premises of D. M. Urr, produce merchant, Gladstone llo.id. wore last night completely destroyed by firo. Through the exertions of the defunct fire brigade and mom bens of the Borough Council, the fire was, confinqd tw-the building in which the iire broke \n\Ut, The j.reniisos were uniniurcd, the [loljify.kpsing- ti f'uw days ago. .'

Referring toM Pyko, member for the Dunstan, in connection with the totalizator, in the leader of pjiir Jay^t issue a jmisapprohonsion. m.iy; exis.fc in the mincld of our readers aa to^ the lion, gentleman's card playing proclivittefe. AYe ate given to unilei stand rvFa* Pyke hasnever heen a card player or gambler in any, shape or form.],.^