EXPECTED ROBBERY ON BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1502, 3 December 1874, Page 3

EXPECTED ROBBERY ON BOARD.

M OF £2,000 WORTH OF IjOS JEWELLERY.

May Howard, an actress of acknow- *, fint-wte talent, is a passenger by the Iws* 1 <«,«■ «omes with a full company. W. Collier, to play for a •"* in Auckland. It is so long since a troupe came to Auckland, fjI'our visitors are therefore the "r^cMisternation was created on board «,* Hero last Sunday morning, when if s g owa rd discovered that the whole of ?!? jewellery, amounting to nearly £2,000 i r {h had been abstracted from her jewel The lady had last seen it safe at ita hotel where she was staying in Sydney Lo hours before leaving, when she placed the gems in the casket herself, and deposited that m a leather reticule. On the vessel's arrival this morning the police were communicated with, and Detective Jeffrey made a search, without however, discovering the valuable missing articles. The loss is the more to be deplored, inasmuch as the various ornaments were mainly testimonials presented to Miss May .Howard in the different places irhere she has played. The jewels are nearly ill brilliants of the first water.