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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1900, Page 8

We'are requested to correct an error in our report of the .Mount Eden Road Board meeting-, which ready tluit £246 only was the value of the property o£ 41-i ratepayers. It shouM have been £MG 5 -164 represented the rateable value of the proj pei'ty of 414 ratepayers. ! On Tuesday. afternoon a pleasing | ceremony of an informal character I took place at Messrs Ireland Eros.' ! warehouse, Vulcan Lane, the occai sion being the departure of Mr |J, ■'■£. Robinson, who. has for seveI'ral years" served •'".the firm as i traveller and salesman. Mi1 Robinson's j fellow employees, desiring1 to show | their appreciation of his good qualij ties and bonhomie, presented him w:ilh ja' handsome silver-mounted pipe suifcI ably inscribed. Mr Newman made the presentation, and ihe recipient suitably replied. Mr Robinson leaves at !an early date for the Waikato, where I he is about to enter into business. i A notice appears ■in another | column cautioning1 against i trespass in pursuit of game, etc., at I Ml. Eden. Persons shooting- in the vicinity this morning' should be careful not to repeat the offence. :A Wellington telegram states, with ■.reference to the escape of. a prisoner reported on another page, that early this morningl a, valuable bay horse, with :equipment, was stolen from the stable of Mr J. Coates, 'general manager of the National Bank. The groom had fed the horse shortly before its loss was noticed. It is suspected Teeee may have got away upon the animal. The Eeturning- Officer of the City By-election (Mr John King) officially announces the result, by advertisement, in this evening's issue as iollows: — Richard Hobbs, 2826; J. J. Holland, 2235; "W. -• ."Richardson, 092; L. W. S. 5ma11,.23; J. H. Witheford, 4934. Gur Thames correspondent telegraphs that Mr J. P. Bennett, of Tapii, whose boat was yesterday reported to have been found on the rocks at Motuihi, and who was supposed to have been drowned, is safe at Tapu, athome. No particulars are available explaining- the loss of his.boat or how Mr Bennett reached home.