AUCKLAND NEWS.

Northern Advocate, 5 August 1893, Page 4

AUCKLAND NEWS.

t — « ; the cadManv&ees contest. I iBY TELEGEAPii.[ I Auckland, Friday, i At the Police Court in a case on Wednesday I Inspector Hickson informed the Bench that p there were aiiumber of thieves banded together ) in Auckland who under the pretence of Belling 3 various articles worked themselves into people's r affairs and robbed them. r Two young men named James Glover and Henry Chrystopher Smith, have been conit mitted for trial for unlawfully and violently | assaulting one Arthur Cottle, and robbing him i of £5 6/. r The Cadman-Rees contest is exciting a great r amount of interest in the City and party 5 feeling runs high, although it is admitted the I figntwillbe a hard one, it is generally anticiE patod that Cadman will gain the victory. > A man named Matthew Smith attempted to 3 coinniitt suicide at St. Albans, Christchurch, by ) cutting his head with a tomahawk. i A young man named Stuart Richmond, a E cadet at Mangateretere station, Napier, comi Emitted suicide,- on Wednesday, in a most r determined manner. His brother had bean \ talking to him on the verandah but had left to 3 put on his boots. Hearing the report of a gun i lie ran into the house and saw his brother lying , oa the floor with the top of his head blown , clean off. There was a rifle beside him with a string attached to the trigger, indicating that he had fired with his foot.