SAN FRANCISCO MAIL (BY TELEGRAPH.) Auckland, May 22.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8191, 24 May 1895, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL (BY TELEGRAPH.) Auckland, May 22.

Sir Roderick Cameron, die well-knn«rn shipowner of New York, and his daughter, were robbed nb Victoria Station, London, on April 12, of valuable jewellery and notes, and drafts, amounting to L lO, OOO. The property was in a tin snfe that Miss Cameron carried, and which was snatched from her by a thief, who escaped in the confusion that followed. Sir Roderick and his daughter were on their way to Paris. A despatch from Paris to the London Chronicle of April 10, says the case of Robert Sherard, a well-known j >urnnliqt, Bg*insfc M'C*rthy, of the British Consulate, for criminal libel, had been adjonrned by the Conventional Tribunal. Sherard charge! M'Carthy with that he publicly accused him of assisting in the O<c»r Wilde sensations. Eight servants in the employ of the Marquis of Londonderry, at his residence, Mount Stewart, Newtownnrda, County Down, went out in a boat on April 12, on Lough St rang ford, and, not | having been heard of, are supposed to be | all drowned.