AUCKLAND NEWS.
[Per Press Associatiok.l AUCKLAND, Aran, 16. Owing to suspicions that a coloured man named Haiatt was selling grog at Golden Cross, Waitekauri, a raid was made on Ms camp when the police secured seven fivegallon beer kegs and a large number of bottles. Seven charges of grog selling have been preferred and two charges under the Beer Duty Act for not defacing stamps. On the arrival of the Mariposa and the steamer Paroo from Sydney both vessels were boarded by the police, who, it is understood, were looking for a person formerly a clerk in the office of the Orient Company, Sydney, and who is said to have absconded with about .£6OO of the company’s funds. Another police officer. Constable Stewart Emerson, son of Inspector Emerson, of Napier, has died at the hospital of typhoid. Mary Ann Codlin, aged sixty years, the wife of a labourer, committed suicide by cutting her throat with a pocket-knife. She had been ailing for some time, and frequently threatened to make-away with herself.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11556, 18 April 1898, Page 5
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