LARRIKINISM AT MOUNT ROSKILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9166, 22 September 1888, Page 5

LARRIKINISM AT MOUNT ROSKILL.

Captain Handlky has made some very strong representations to the police, regarding the annoyances to which he has been and is subjected by a number of grown larrikins in the Mount Roskill district. Captain Handley lives opposite St. Alban's Church, Mount Roskill Road. Four or five nights ago a board, on which the name of a street was painted, was removed from a place within about 400 or 500 yards of his dwelling, and one of his gate-posts was removed and the street board planted in its place. The morning following, at four o'clock, there was a hammering at the back door, and stones were thrown. Captain Handley went down stairs, but the aggressors had vanished. On Wednesday night five larrikins seated in a gully near the house were overheard by Captain Handley's servant saying they would make it lively for him. She informed her mistress, and Capt. and Mrs. Handley went to the place indicated, but when the pests found they were discovered they cleared, and although they were waited for until four o'clock in the morning, they did not return. At half-past seven o'clock on Thursday night, while the servant was in the kitchen washing tip the tea things a stone was flung through the window, which missed her, but some of the crockery was smashed. Captain Handley rushed out as fast as he could, "but saw no one. Mrs. Handley, however, on looking over a fence saw some one lying under it, and Captain Handley went after him, while Mrs. Handley went to the next door neighbours for assistance. The fellow, however, escaped. The seven o'clock 'bus from Auckland was then coming up, and when the lights appeared three shrill whistles were, heard, and Mrs. Handley, who was close to the road, saw three of those who had been seen in the gully on the previous night join on the roadway, and walk in the direction of Auckland. She had a good view of them, and one, she thinks, she can identify. Captain Handley yesterday informed Inspector Broham of the annoyances to which | he had been subjected ; and it is hoped this larrikin gang will be brought to justice.