About noon yesterday a man named ■Robert Cameron, a sailor on the s.s. Clansman, slipped and fell over the Queen-street Wharf. Constable Fraser, who saw him fall, threw a buoy to the sailor, and with the assistance of some bystandcres pulled him out of the water. Cameron was taken to the Clansmnn and given a change of clothingl, lie. seemed none the worse for his involuntary bath.
We learn that the ponds at the Western Springs are very low to-day.
At the Police Court to-day, before Mr U. \Y. Brabant," S.M., two first f-.flending' 'drunks' Avere cautioned and (lisidiarij'ed. Georginn Given was fined 10/, witli the option of 4S hours" hard labour. Alexander Quinn, for drunken and disorderly conduct, and for damaging ('oust. Henry's uniform, was iined £2 and ordered to pay the dainajye, f)/; in default, 7 days' imprison-
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A few days since the Town Clerk forwarded a memo. to the Inspector of Police in reference to certain nuisances existing1 in a prominent suburban thoroughfare. The Inspector replies that he has issued instructions that provisions of the Police Offences Act must bo strictly enforced.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1898, Page 3
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