AUCKLAND.
THE OLD MEN'S REFUGE INQUIttlg Juno 2G, To-day Colonel Haultain commence an inquiry into the alleged irregularis in the Old Men's Refuge. The inquii showed that grog had been clandestine! smuggled into the Refuge. The Ladic Benevolent Society instructed the mam ger to search inmates returning hom from visiting town, and one man natni Harris resisted. In the struggle ho fe and was severely injured in the 1 bad He admitted that there was no in I of violence being used, but denied til right of the manager to search him Another inmate was proved to liai been drunk. Walker, an old soldier an Waterloo veteran left in a pet, owing I being abused by another inmate, but yn allowed to return.
Several persons have been summon! for using light weights. One baker, wli had 57 light weights was fined only fit shillings. At the Auckland Institute, Captaii Brown read a paper on Coleoptera. H believed New Zealand contained a hut dred specimens, whereas only forty-foi) had been discovered in Europe. Fort) three species had already been discovotu in New Zealand. Arrived —Matchless, from Oamaru.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 367, 27 June 1877, Page 2
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186AUCKLAND. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 367, 27 June 1877, Page 2
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