AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5211, 29 September 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(Pbb Pbebs Association).

Last night. A Chinamen named Lee Chong was arrested at Devonport to-day upon a charge of assaulting with intent to commit rape upon a married woman named Hannah Meyer, wife of a market gardener and small farmer, near Lake Takapuna, on Sunday afternoon. The husband saw accused throw his wife down and attempt the crime. The accused offerred £3 to square the matter, but an arrest was the outcome.

This day. Arrived : s.s. Wairarapa from southern ports and Melbourne. Sailed last night: Hineraoa for Wellington. Among the passengers are the following southern members:—G. F. Richardson, Hirst, Samuel, Levestam and J. C. Brown.

To prove that A uckland has a " Mother Jeffries," a local labour agent writes to the Star that the keeper of a we'l known house has asked him to supply two handsome parlour maids, and promised liberally to reward him '-■ if they turned out well."

Eva Etheridge, aged 14, a daughter of Mr Etheridga, of the Crown Lands Department, narrowly escaped death by poisoning. She was recovering from typhoid fever, and was given carbolic acid instead of the proper medicine by mistake. She is still in a critical condition.

Sailed to>day: Hawea, for southern ports. Passengers, Mr and Mrs Corry, Misses McLean and Pender, Messrs Jackson, Beale, Dealy, Flexnor, and Mitchell.