AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4329, 15 November 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Yesternight information was given to the police that Henry Geddes Hunter, whose wife is a boardinghouse-keeper, attempted suicide by taking phosphorus. The police found the man lying on the verandah with phosphorus shining on his lips and fingers, while there was a severe gasli on the top of the head. Emetics were applied, and he vomited freely. It subsequently transpired that Hunter had an altercation with his wife, who struck him over the head with a chair leg, and there is reason to believe that he smeared his face with phosphorus to make her believe he committed suicide*

Mr J. T. Mackelvie, of London, who has already presented several thousand pounds worth of works of art to the Auckland Museum, has purchased several art treasures at the Duke of Hamilton's sale, and has sent them to Auckland in the ships Loch Urr and Loch Fleet. The gift comprises two pictures by Guido, Rene, and one by Stanfield, besides a collection of Roman glass, marble, and antique articles found in recent explorations.

A rumor is current at Te Awamutu that George Savage, Mr Tole's servant, supposed to have been accidently drowned in the Punui on the sth inst., was murdered by a i/ative named Pukekura. It appears that a native named Maniapoto stated in the hotel at Kihikibi, on the 15th inst., to a lad named Benjamin Ward, that Pukekura had killed Savage and thrown him into the river. The statement reached the ears of Constable Gillies (the man who arranged Winiata's arrest, and cap-

Pakara and Epiha), and he brought Ward and Maniapoto together, when the latter denied all knowledge, as Pukekura is now in native country, but the police believe the story deserves credence.

The prizes distributed at the Dcvonport regatta amounted to £320.