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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 15 June 1892, Page 8

This afternoon Police Detective Hughes arrested a train conductor, in the employ <jf xMessrs Paterson and Co., named Albert Tate, on a charge of larceny as a bailee of a purse containing 18s, the -property of Catherine Inhes. Mrs Innes dropped the burse in a tramear recently, and it is alleged thab another lady picked it up and E ave it to the conductor, who is now charged with appropriating the contents to h.3 own use. Tho Hon. R. Seddon, Minister'for Defence and Public Works, arrived in town thia afternoon by train from Te Aroba accompanied by his private secretary and Colonel Fraser, Ivi.H.R. He leaves for Wellington to-morrow.

A consign menb of " knuckle-dusters "is to be destroyed by.the Customs authorities in Victoria.

No longer will tbe girl of " sweeb seventeen '■" be eligible for employment as a State school teacher in Victoria. The minimum ' . agehas been raised to eighteen years. ■' Don'b fret if you cannot go into society. The oyster.is often present aba supper when he would, perhaps, prefer to be ab bbme in his bed. It is rather surprising to learn that the littlp.republic of Uruguay has mere newsy. papers in proportion to its population than »nj* other country in the world.