AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3746, 29 December 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This c? r.

At the Police Court John Ast den was committed for trial for stealing uey from the person of Michael Sher un, a bushman.

Henry Patrick Haydon, for threaten* ing to shoot his wife with a pistol, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

Some suspicion exists re the sale of Foul Play, the owner's name not being disclosed to the public, who fight shy of betting on her, until guaranteed that the horse will start for all engagements.

A man named Switzer, a farmer, has been arrested for deserting his wife at Mongonui, and was ordered to be sent home.-s, lie ran away with the daughter of a farmer, and intended td take her to Melbourne.

The steamer Alert was partly burnt on the Waikato Hirer during the absence of the engineer. At the Harbour Board, a motion to make it elective was postponed. Tuesday. At 9.30 p.nS. on Christmas Day, the Hon. H. JR. Beor, who was a passenger from Sydney by the Rotorua, committed suicide by shotting himself. He is supposed to belong to the Upper House of Parliament in Queensland. He was buried at sea.

Samuel Brown was to-day brought up on remand charged with larceny. Drs. Eenderdine and Goldsbro', who were appointed to examine the prisoner, reported that the prisoner was afflicted with an acute discas ■, which at his age (82), would have a disturbing effect upon his mental faculties. He was not absolutely insane, but, was not fit to plead, and quite incapacitated for any ordinary business. His Worship said tho medical report was not quite satisfactory. Up must send accused to gaol, and then forward the medical certificate to the Colonial Secretary. Mr Tyler made some remarks, and asked for bail. His Worship said he could not admit an insane man to bail. The Suicide on board the Eotorua. Further particulars of the suicide of the Hon. H. Boer, said to be a member of the Queensland Parliament, state that he booked at Sydney, and it is believed he intended to make a tour of New Zealand. After leaving port, the we^lher | was rough, and deceased was observed to ! be seasick. On Christmas night he went below, and had been there Oil Sy a short time when the report of n gun was heard. The passengers xound him lying with his face bleeding, end an examination showed he had shot himself in the neck, and the windpipe was torn by the Shot. Death must have been instantaneous. The gun was double-barrelled, and loaded with heavy Blugs. As tho weather was hot, it was deemed advisable to rater the body, and it was consigned to the deep. The burial service was read

over the body by the Hers. Burrows and Boss.