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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 289, 5 December 1900, Page 2

Several City Council allotments were put iip for lease by auction by Messrs Hall and Perkins this afternoon. Allotments in Wakefield, Cook, Picton; Beresford, Howe, Hopetoun, Wynyard and Chancery streets, and in Ponsonby and Grafton Boads and Waterloo Quadrant were offered and the following- were disposed as follows: —Hopetoun-street, lot 21, £ S per annum; Picton-street, lot 37, £5; Wynyard-street, lots 12 and 13, £5 a.piece.

About 11.20 o'clock last night Mrs Moir, wife of Dr. Moir, Ponsonby Road, hearing the cries of an infant evidently: in distress, went into the garden and discovered that a male child about three weeks old had been abandoned, She at once took the infant inside and telephoned .to the Ponsonby Police ! Station. Constable Brown proceeded to Dr. Moir's residence and removed the child to Mrs Carnie's home, in Ver-mont-street; To-da.y Detective ' McIlveney took the case in hand in order to try and discover who had a.bandoned the child. The infant was wrapped in two flannel petticoats, one being pink and grey knitted wool with open work at the waist. A piece of "flannelette was tied round the child's head. Although somewhat wea,k from exposure the infant seems fairly no\irl3hed, Ho has darkish hair 'ascl dark bine eyes. ,