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New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette, Volume I, Issue XIII, 3 September 1840, Page 3

Tlte Election tif Oiti-ciori for (lip Ijank took pljce on Tn,-■-(];iiy, ' ilie lulJowij,., gtunk-mea wr i b rriuriit-d f—.- ' , Mr. Mair, Rir. Thompson, IMr tVit : iam*, XTr. Clcncf.'D; Dr- Po'Ucn; Mr.,Scott, .Air. M'jyliew, Air. Perry-;, \ y - --• '.

About 5 o’clock' Cit M'dnday morning a robbery'-’,was i eommiUed on the lien roost of :Mr.: Grenier* Kororarika* by so.iie -tmknpwn depredators. Several fowls and ap.air of geese were stolen. One of the latter was afterwards found on the level, at the foot of the hill-' Owing to ; some mishap .which dixturbed the heiis, theHhief did not!-succeed, in clearing the :rbost, which to have been his: intention; The noise and fluttering of the fowls; awakened the inmates, and .on going out .Mr. Grenier <ljs<;overe<l;:ti young cock, dropped iiv the path aild.ideaid.: ■ Another cock was stolen, arid inruny of Ids leathers scattered about uittiltedr the piitli . of -the : robbers' for a considerable distance. If a Magistrate had : been;-stationed i at Kororarika, a search’ warrant would .have been immediately taken out.and. miire thanone bouse w.ould. have been eXauiined. As it was, liothiiu-g could be,.done.- Surely, it' will niH be Ipng.-before wo-ba.ve-the, orotection '.of tjie Laws,'• since, blie Britisli; Government has taken Ins under its wing.