SERIOUS ROBBERY AT SHOT LAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1400, 13 May 1868, Page 3

SERIOUS ROBBERY AT SHOT LAND.

Information lias been received by the police in Auckland of a most daring and extensive robbery at Shortland, which was committed in a house or a claim in the Long Drive, Tookey's Flat. The occupants left the house all secure, in order to go down to the township, and on their return, after a few hours' absence, found that a forcible entry through the window had been effected, and the following property had been taken away, viz. :—Two £20 notes on the Bank of .New Zealand, three £5 ditto, five £1 ditto, an order on the Bank of New Zealand for £100, a receipt for £6 for surveying the.. All Nations claim, a silver pencil case, and one or two other small articlesi the property of Alfred Newdrick. A pocket-book containing three £5 notes, and two

orders on the Bank of JSTew Zealand, Auckland, for £10(5 each: a cheque for £87 145.; a receipt for £300 on the Bank of New Zealand, Sliortland ; and another, for £150, on the same Bank, at Auckland; and a receipt for signed bv a private party, part the property ot Mr. IsVwdrick, and part belonging to Mr. Snowdon, arc also missing. There was other property in the house, but it luckily escaped detection. We understand that there is not the slightest suspicion attached to any one as. yet, but the police will doubtless do their best to bring the matter to light.