A BOLD BURGLAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 116, 15 May 1908, Page 5

A BOLD BURGLAR.

RAID ON MABTOxV HOTELS." THREATENS TO KILL -HOUSEMAID. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) MARTON, this day. Tliore was a burglary at Mar ton last niglit. The operator was evidently an expert thief making , a tour down thecoast. At the White Hart Hotel two boarders' rooms were entered, and the pockets of the inmates were carefully gone through and A room occupied My the proprietor's son was also visited, and the money in his pockets was stolen. The Club Hotel was aUo entered. The thief was seen by the housemaid, whose room he entered with a lighted candle, and, on her awakening, he threatened to blow her brains out if she gave the alarm. He then took the contentsN of her purse, threw the empty purse at her, and decamped. The police have some clue in the description given by the housemaid.

The half-yearly rally of 'the Auckland Christian Endeavour Societies was held in connection with the Rev. J. Flanagan's mission, in the Baptist Tabernacle, last night. The building was well filled. Tlie pVcsidcnt of the C.E. Union, Rev. G. Clement, presided, nnd a most impressive address was given by the Rev. J. Flanagan, in which he urged all Christian Encleavourers to strive to win others to God and a Christian v life.

"Is it not a fact," asked a solicitor in the S.M. Court of a mral-looking witness, "that the use of dogs with dairy cows is discountenanced?" "I don't care what they are so long as they are good," replied the sw of the- soil. _.' *