AUCKLAND.
A Chinaman arrived from Rarotonga on Monday by the Ovalau, and as he bore letters of naturalisation in the name of Unh Gin Lum he was not charged the £100 poll tax required by law from Chinese immigrants.. The police now allege he is not Unh Gin Lum at all, and that the real Unh" is already in the colony. The new arrival has been arrested on a charge of entering the colony without paying £100, and appeared before the Police Court this morning. The cas6 was adjourned. On the 29th Constable Carroll, of Kihikihi, and party raided the premises occupied by John Ormsby, at Otorohanga, and seized a quantity of schnapps, brandy, whisk} 1-, wine, and beer. The premises raided were until lately occupied by John Hettit, who sold out to Ormsby a fortnignt ago. At the same hour Constable Macconachie, of Te Kuiti, and a party raidea John Hettit's establishment at Te Kuiti, and seized some liquor there, but not so large a, quantity as at Otorohanga. Both parties acted under instructions from Inspector Cullen. At the half-yearly meeting of the Auckland District Manchester Unity Lodge it was stated that the accumulated funds of the lodges were £50,000. The funeral fund (the largest in New Zealand) of £10,000 was invested, bearing 5 per cent. interest. The membership had doubled in five years. George H. Powley was appointed delegate to the A.M.C. in England in May, 1900. A North Auckland Farmers' Union is being formed to secure a better price for produce and fruit. Ethel and Lily Lanskey, of Mount Eden, the one aged 12 and the .other 10, disappeared from home on the 27th, and returned three days later. After sleeping out foi two nights they swallowed a half-box oi matches between them, and then jumped into a tank of water sft deep. A neighboui managed to pull them out, and they are now in the hospital recovering from the exposure, match swallowing, and attempted drowning. The father, it appears, thrashed them the other day for taking flowers from a neighbour's garden, and this is supposed to be the reason fo; their subsequent actions. Mahuki, or Manukura, the Maori fanatical prophet who in 1883 tied up Mr Hursthouse and another surveyor in the King Country, and who also committed several other offences, died on Friday in the lunatic asylum, where he was sent from gaol several months ago. Three years back he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for firing a building at Te Kuiti. He was at one time a disciple of Te Whiti ab Parihaka.
AUCKLAND.
Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 45
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