AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4786, 12 May 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day,

Barry and Macdonnell, who had been prospecting for gold at Tuhua, and were arrested by the natives hare arrived here. They state that after by the natives, their specimens were taken away from 'hem. The natives brought the prospectors over to the valley of the Waipa, where, after a eonierence with Wahanui, they were allowed to depart and came on to Auckland.

An English cablegram has stated that Thomas Hugh Shortland has been arrested for the murder of his wife,- at Plymouth. It is surmised here that the man is a son of Dr Shortland, formerly Colonial Secretary. Hugh Shortland was a law student here, and? left for England last July. His father, who resides, here, was ,not aware of his marriage. . - An Absconding Schooner.

The schooner Atlantic, owned by Donald and Edinborough, of Auckland, was to have sailed from this port for Mangapai, in Cook's ground, on Saturday, under charge of Captain Cleaverly. A man .named. Captain Simpson had em* barked as a passenger on Saturday afternoon, Cleaverly finding that there was not enough wind to start went ashore, and on going down the wharf yesterday, found that the vessel had disappeared. Jt it surmised tha,t Simpson has run off with her. It is stated that an application has been made to the Government for the steamer Stella to proceed in pursuit of the Atlantic.

Barry and McDonnell, the King County prospectors, state that they have no doubt that a rich reefing distript exists at Tuhua.