LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1065, 12 August 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

iSpmi...' to the Daily Teleijiiapu.) ArosLAND, this day. AN ESCAPE AND CAPTURE A youth namod William Scurbro, who was sontonced to a month's imprisonment for assault last Monday, managed to oscapo from custody while working with njgnng at tho Mount Edon quarries, '! ho warder soon missed him, but moanwhilo a constable in plain clothes noticed him and affected his capture. WARNING TO lAND-SHARK 9 Tho Commissioner of Crown Lands used come vory plain speaking at tho ballot for tlio swamp lands in Tokntokn and Tekuri Districts The total numbor of applicants was 1234 for 2!l scciinns, but the land is drained, and is regarded as very valuable The Commissioner laid that he had struck out all who applied for <noro than Ihey wore entitled to. Others wero not actually settlors. They included bank managors, lawyers, billiard markers, journalists, schoolmasters, and people of all classes. Those who went in would have to too the mark with tho rest, If these people wou'd settle on the land they should have fair play, but thoy must settle on it. There would bo a day of reckoning for all specu, tutors whon thoy wanted to transfer the land to some one elso, Every transfer would ho rigorously scrutinised, and ho would defend the bona lido settlor against tho operations of tho speculator. " 1 tell all speculators now that thoy must get off the ground," said tho Commissioner n conclusion SUICIDE OF A WOMAN Eingborg Masdeu, itged 38, wife of ft Daii'sh landscape gardener, com•jiitlnl suicide this morning at a Grafton Road boarding houso by sliouiii» herself with a revolver. Tho bullet went through the roof of hor month and entered the coillns;. Pho was discovered quite dead by bjr husband. The suicide is attributed to despondency and ill health, Deceased was disßiuiftied with the colony and was to have left for Denmark on Monday,