AUCKLAND.
Yesterday,
Wm. Henry Crossley, son of a deceased clergyman, was sentenced to two months for vagrancy. He bad represented himself as a detective from Chrislchurch in search of an offender, and victimised public-houses. He had only been acquitted at the last session of the Supreme Court on a technical point of kindred practices.
At the first meeting of the Auckland University College, Judge Gillies prs<sided. Sir George O'Eorke was elected President of the Council.
Sitnonsen's Opera Company opened tonight at the Theatre Eoyal to a good house.
The city and several suburban Licensing Committees' elections took place today. The Licensed Victuallers were generally victorious. In the North Ward the Good Templars only got one man in Mr G. W. Owen, unopposed ; in the East Ward, none; in the South Ward, two, F. G. Ewington and D. Goldie; in Grafton, one, A. Bell. Joseph Newman was defeated in three city wards, and in Grafton as a Templar candidate. The Licensed Victuallers contended that Mr Newman was ineligible as an assessor uuder the Property Tax Act, being a Government servant.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4409, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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179AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4409, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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