AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4492, 29 May 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Messrs Hunt and White have been notified by the Government of the aceeptauce of their tender for the railway contract (formation only) from Morrinsville to Te Arbha. The section is about 12 miles in length, and the price is a little over £1000 a mile. The first section of 12 miles from Hamilton to Morrinsville was executed by the firm.

Detective Hughes arrived in town yesterday with the recaptured prisoner Adams handcuffed. It appears that Constable MclCriight, of Papakura, got a trace of Adams early on Saturday, near Papakura, and traced him from house to house till he reached the Bombay settlement, where Adams had applied for shelter as a wayfarer at a house in which there were only two women at the time. The constable, on arriving at the house, at once closed with Adaaas, who is a strapping muscular fellow, and endeavoured to effect his arrest; a free fight ensued between' the two. The women screamed, and a Newfoundland dbg in the house joined in the melee, but being puzzled as to the rights and wrongs of the row, he alternately bit both parties. After nearly an hour's struggle a settler came to the constable's assistance, and he succeeded in getting the handcuffs on- Adams. Constable McKnight's hands are badly bitten and mauled about, and Adams' wrists are also swollen and contused with his efforts to free himself from the handcuffs.

It is stated that Parliament will be petitioned by the prospectors of Te Aroha goldfield for a reward.

[Per Pbeßß Association.]