It is understood that Mr Henry Brett's appointment—an excellent one, too—as one of the Auckland Commissioners for the lloyal Reception was a tardy recognition of a signal service ho rendered to the Duke of Edinburgh on the occasion of that distinguished personage’s arrival in Auckland more than thirty years ago. Mr Brett was at that time a shipping reporter on the Herald staff, but nevertheless he introduced the Duke to Auckland and rendered him the first service he received in the country. The story of that episode would make a good club’s yarn, but it is not ours to tell.—Observer. A Geelong jeweller's shop was burglariously entered recently, and valuables worth" .£'2,000 carried off. No arrest has yet bc-en made in connection with the robbery,
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 145, 1 July 1901, Page 1
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