AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3493, 16 September 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

September 16. The crew of the Makarau have reached Auckland. There is no trace of the schooner. She is believed to be drifting; about the coast. She has a cargo of sawn timber. The barge St. Olair is reported missing on her voyage from Barrier Island to Auckland. Vessels which since left tbe island saw no trace of her. The news by cable that a Miss Lovegrove from New Zealand has laid claim to the Derwentwater estate has roused into action a local claimant named Pearce, of Newmarket. He considers he has some right to the property which has 60 long gone a begging, and bases his right upon the following pedigree : His father-in-law was a Captain Robert Good, and Captain Good's great grandfather was Lord Petrie, who rrarried the only daimhterof the executed Earl of Derwentwater. The latter had an only son, who was killed in France, leaving no issue. Pearce states that Captain Good more than fifty years ago made application for the estate, but through some intormality over a baptismal certificate failed to get possession of the wealth. Pearce feels be has a stake in the business, and is going to write to a brother-in-law of the

son of Capt. Good to excite him to watch " narrowly over the family interests. Robert Marsh, the burglar who was ciptured by Mr Knox and Mr J. Hill, locker in H.M. Customs, formerly of Nelson, was brought up at the Police Court yesterday and remanded for a week. ? The burglar had a large table knife and a revolver with thirteen cartridges when ' he was captured. Sergeant-Major Pardy and Constable Bernard searched his lodgings, he having separated from his wife a ' fortnight previously, and captured an array of booty almost as good as when the police captured Plummer's depot at Safety Villa, on the new North-road. An inspection of the booty speedily revealed the fact that Marsh had been concerned in the robbery of Mr Jones, of the Northroad, as some deeds that were taken were amongst the plunder. Articles stolen from the Rev. C. Carter's and Mr Haslett's Grafton-road, were also found. Marsh, it appears, came up from Christchurch some time ago, at the time of Plummer's escape, and seeing that the fun was fast and furious thought it would be as well to have a hand in the game. Tt appears from some of the property in the possession of tbe police that Marsh was concerned in the robbery of Mr Bigelow's place, at Ponsonby, and of Mr Williams' at Mount Eden. Both of these cases happened about nine months ago, and were robberies of money, jewellery, and valuable articles. They were accomplished in the same style as the recent cases. Marsh was also the robber of Mr Williams, tailor, Victoria-street, and of the adjacent places of Mr Green and Mr Allan. He entered them all on the same night. These were put down to the credit of Plummer at the time. Marsh was also concerned in the recent breaking and entering into the dwelling-houses of George Kevan, Cook-street,Hannkins, Union-street, and M'Gurney's. Marsh arrived in Auckland in the Ocean Mail from London in November, 1875. He is an Englishman by birth, and a saddler by trade. He lived in Auckland for some time, and afterwards went to Waipu and from thence to Whangarei, where he commenced business as a saddler. He had some unpleasantness with his wife and went South, returning as stated here from Christehurch a year ago. Marsh is about 32 years of age. He was comfortably dressed, and had the appearance of a respectable tradesman. There is nothing of the criminal in his appearance. He does not seem to have been pressed by poverty, but having committed one successful robbery he took a malicious delight in repeating tbe process and outwitting the police. He bears himself with considerable Dhilosophy, and recounts his exploits with as much gusto as Frederick Plummer did. Marsh could not long have escaped capture by the police, as they bad a tolerably good description of him, and he narrowly escaped capture on Tuesday. On Thursday, rinding himself watched in Queen-street, he abruptly left ] the city. He seemed to have come to the j conclusion that things were getting warm, as he visited his wife and told her she had seen the last of him for the present, as he intended to clear out of Auckland. Nothing is known of his career in Christehurch, or whether he had any conneGtion with the robberies which took i place there some time ago. He worked ] at his trade in that district. His in his robberies here appears tn . c . en to watch certain houses * : " *° c lnn ? ateß were all out and the- " d!er tbe premises.