AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. The passengers on the Waihora were landed last night at the quarantine station, and the fumigation of the vessel is proceeding to day. All are in good health and spirits. ,1 Shortly after midnight a fracas occurred at the Shakespeare Hotel, Wyndham street. It appears Thomas Atkinson and Terance Lynch (a noted boxer) went into a room in which four men—James, David, and John Roche, and Thomas Hanlon—were playing cards. The brothers Roche asked the new comers why they bad come into the room, and one of them kicked. Lynch in the eye. A general melee ensued, and when the police arrived, Lynch was lying senseless, with a contused wound on his temple, the floor spattered with clots of blood, and the visional organs of the Roche Bros, much damaged. The police, .after a severe struggle, arrested the four card, players, and McCarthy, the barman, for assaulting Lynch, who was removed to the Hospital, where he now lies in a precari ous condition. ■

Another Gun Accident.

A young man named Gibson, while oat rabbit shooting at Te Awamutu, was accidentally shot in the leg by a companion. The leg was amputated, and he died shortly after the operation.*"