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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3803, 7 March 1881, Page 2

The North Otago Times repor 8 that an extensive robbery of jewellery was perpetrated ac the ,\^ait»ki -Bridge Hotel on Wednesday evening. Mrs Ward, wife of the licensee, accompanied by Misb Hoggett, had been to a neighbour's house, and on returning about midnight the last-named lady wont into her bedroom, and on looking around missed several articles of jewellery. Mrs Ward was informed of the circumstance and awoke the barman, fche three making a jointeearch. ' On looking under her bed Miss Hoggatfc observed a man crouched up in a corner, and catching him by the hair of ihe head she forced him is come out, when he aaid, "It is all right; I will give up what things I bave got. He was searched, and the unaermen-ioned articles found upon him :-Watch and chain geld locket, necklace and locket, three gold finger riogs, pair of earrings, gold cros*. set gold Btuls, solitaire, gold-plated neck chain, silver chain," two silver pipe ferrules, one pair solitaires, scarf ring, watch, and seventeen and *jxt;ence in silver. The man's name is James ;MaeJf, and he had been stopping afc the hotel r«nee'<,he>' pre»ions ,day. Ho was detained tuntil-tWjJoJkce had been communicated wi h, .and^waa'pubß^UPntly- brought to town by •Constable Kennedy, PeobablY the largest army ever assembled for battle was that oi Kerjcee at Thermopylae is 481 B.C. Herodo! us eßtyai#t<tf .the number 9 f combatants at 25,000,000. •