AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1418, 25 January 1879, Page 9

AUCKLAND.

Auckland, January 15th. The Star says there appears to be a gang of Bkilful scoundrels at work in Auckland, watching every opportunity to rob the coffers of tradesmen and hotel-keepers. Twenty-four sovereigns were abstracted from a box in the bedroom of one hotel, but no clue has been found to lead to the conviction of the offenders. A mystery still hangs over the more extensive robbery from Mr Warren,' and no trace whatever of the guilty party has been discovered. Auckland,, January 17tb. A man named Warr met with a serious accident yesterday, jat Hamilton, Waikato, while working at a cutting on Cambridge road. About two tons of earth fell, nearly burying him. One of his thighs was broken, the other knee and one arm were dislocated, and the spine waeseriously injured. DrWaddingtonhappened to be passing at the time, and temporarily setting the limbs, sent him home in a dray, and I afterwards visited him. He is too bad to-day to be sent to the Hospital at Auckland as wa3 intended. It is doubtful whether he will recover. John Pennan, proprietor of the Te Aro sawmills, was, whilst working, killed by a blow from a plank. He died half an hour after the accident. Auckland, January 20th. A wife-beater, named Thomas Lukes Webb, at the Whau, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and bound over to keep the peace. He suspected infidelity. The prosecutrix' face was a dreadful spectacle. She bears an excellent character. A boatman named Pool fell over the Russell wharf in the dark, but was gallantly rescued by Constable M'Govern.