AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4382, 19 January 1883, Page 4

AUCKLAND.

" . . Yesterday. E. Harris, the jockey rode Eubini in the Maiden Plate race, on Boxing Day, is in the Hospital, Bufferriog from peritonitis. With some other jockeys he was skylarking. oh the grandstand, and he ascribes his illness to collision with one of the lads. Yesterday it wot feared Harris would not recoter, and his father', who resides at Gisborne, was telegraphed for. He has Dow taken a turn for the better. The are 43 nominations for the Auckland Derby of 1884-85, the Middle Park .- Stud Co. contributing eleren; Auckland Stud Co., eight.%., Messrs Stanley and Darbyshire's Juvenile Operatic Troupe, after a successful, season at the Opera House here, left by J;~ the 8.8. Arawata for Gisborne, and thence 7- go*to Napier, Wellington, and Southern .s> oitiea. * .. , -,^-A William Brown, who has for a number ''-. of' Tears past been engaged as a nurse at ( r4h«i hospital, died4o day. This old man- - o'-war's-man belonged to the crew of one of Her Majesty's ressels on the New Zealand station in the' days of Sir George Grey's fifst'Governorship. , „-. George Smart, a young man employed in fixing corrugated iron on the Northern - Soot Factory, fell from the joists of the second story through. Ihe first floor joists , into the cellar, striking the joists in his ■ fall. The depth was 40 feet. He was taken^tpAbe hospital, and, strange to say, beyond! befog badly shaken and contused •.-- no very serious injuries resulted.