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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 157, 29 October 1900, Page 2

: The mail steamer* Mariposa ,was ; decayed, for over half an hour to-day owing to an . Austrian booked fron. Sydney to San Francesco haying-come ■-'.',".' ashore here last iiight, without the ' :usual bond being entered into. .The Customs authorities demanded , that the.captain of the Mariposa enter into' , a "bond of £ 100,: the money to be forfeited if no trace of the man coujd Pf found. However, while the bond was being drawn up the 'man turned :rip> and walked aboard the steamer a lit- , tie after the advertised time'of sailing, having spent the night and. this morning with some of his couritryxnea . > in this city. As soon as the man was aboard the bond was. cancelled, and the vessel proceeded on her way. The wife 'of Mr John Lumpkin, butcher, of Newmarket, had her collar '- bone dislocated through a trap accident on Sunday evening.- if appears that Mr and Mrs I_impkin and a young lady froend were driving in from Panmure when a trap containing three young men endeavoured to pass on the; wrong side, and in doing so collided with and upset Mr Lumpkin's vehicle. The occupants-were thrown out, Mrs Lumpkin dislocating her collarbone and receiving several bruises. Both vehicles'were more or less damaged. >- ; Four New Zealand Government mail agents left here to-day by the 1..M-&--Mariposa for San Francisco in charge of the mails.. They are. Messrs Buctd1 (Auckland), Isbister, ■■■ Lindsay,; an* Martin, 'They returnher_. by the new . R.M.s. Sierra. ."■ "_\ '_' '_'._ Vi . ; ;-•?'.-,, -• <