AUCKLAND.
This day. William Maples, Occidentnl Hotel, for a second offence was fined £10 and costs for permitting gambling in his house. The Inspector said the men engaged in gambling on the night in question were all professionals. The system had a bad effect on the young men of the city, and many were drawn into a vortex of ruin through its influences.
Arrived : City of New York, from Sydney. She was delayed by a strong easterly gale. Passengers for New Zeeland :—Hon. J. Wilson, Mr *nd Mrs J. L. Grahum, Hon. Tarlton W»terhouse. T. L. Richardson ; also 36 saloon and 26 steerage passengers and 40 tons of cargo, and four saloon and seven steerage for California. Monday. Mrs Berryman, wife of a settler in the Waikato, committed suicide by jumping into the Waikato river. Motive un-. known. Government have paid a deposit of £100 for land on the new road discovered by Mr Moss, Taupo Lake road. A death is reported under suspicious circumstances at Coromandel. A boy died suddenly, supposed from a kick inflicted by another boy. An inquest and post mortem examination have been ordered and a second doctor sent for from Auckland.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3085, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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196AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3085, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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