AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3482, 4 September 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

September 4. The Barlow shooting affair is now exposed by the chiefs Wahanui and Te Wbitiora. Patupata, Barlow's companion, confessed that he and Tv Tawhiao, a sou of King Tawhiao, were bribed by Barlow. Tv Tawhiao received a watch, ring, and £5 and Patupata received £4. Wahanui and Te Whitiora deserve great credit for the exposure. Mr Walters, the race horse owner, is somewhat better. A boy at Onehunga poured molten lead into a bottle of water, and the bottle exploded, scattering the molten lead over his face, which it is feared will cause total blindness. A blacksmith named William John Lyttle was charged with bigamy at the Police Court on Saturday, and remanded for a week. Lyttle wai married to his first wife at Belfast in 1876, and with her emigrated to New Zealand and resided for a considerable time at Taranaki. He left in quest of employment, and was supposed to have been lost in the wreck of the Tararua. His wife, believing that such was the case, put on widow's weeds, and in due time accepted the hand of a man named Baker, and was married to him. Lyttle becoming aware of the fact that his Belfast wife had found another husband, thought he would not interfere with the conjugal happiness of Baker and his wife, and went to Wanganui and made love to a young woman known as Polly Willows, whose friends live at Newton. Polly induced her husband to take her and ber baby to Auckland, where ber friends resided, and where he would find work. The facts, however, became known in Wanganui, and a paragraph appearing in a local journal led to the arrest of Lyttle here on a charge of bigamy. Bail was allowed. Shortly before twelve o'clock last night a fire broke out in a block of five twostory shops at Newton. It commenced at Mr Marriott's auction mart, which was burnt down, and also Spinley's fancy goods shop and Walker's butcher shop. Banbury and English's dairy and Murphy's fruiterer's shop were saved, but were damaged. Those burnt down were insured as follows: —■ Marriott's and Spinley's in the Royal for £1200, and Walker's in the Colonial for £350. Walker's furniture was insured in the Colonial for £50 and Marriott's goods in the Colonial for £300 (only one-third insured). Spinley's goods were uninsured. The two shops saved, but damaged, are insured in the Colonial for £750. The cause of the fire is unknown.