Auckland News.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8607, 11 March 1897, Page 2

Auckland News.

(BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Auckland, March 10,

Mr Heaton Rhodes, captain of the polo team at present visiting Auckland, was struck by a ball hit by another player and had his jaw fractured, at Hunter and Nolan's Paddock, Green Lane railway station, yesterday afternoon. Dr Lindsay was telephoned for, and attended to the sufferer.

Sir R. Stout is announced to speak in Auckland on Friday evening on " Workers and the Temperunce Question." I understand lie has been induced to make the address by the Executive of the Prohibition League.

Great interest is being taken in the Athletic Club's meeting fixed for Saturday, and some good racing is expected. Yesterday, a cabman named Greenan, in the employ of Messrs Pullan and Armitage, bus proprietors, Welles-ley-street, met with a painful accident. He was watering his horses at the horse trough opposite the Post Office, when one of the horses slipped on the roadway, and in plunging to recover itself broke the bar and splashboard andinflisted a severe wound below the cap of the right knee of the driver. Greenan was taken into Aickin's Pharmacy, where Dr. Mackellar attended to his injuries.

Another old settler has passed away in the person of Mr William Pelley, of Union street. He had attained the ripe age of 82. Deceased was a native of Ryde, Isle of Wight, where he was in business as a builder and contractor, and also at Ventnor. He had also acquired an aptitude for the sea, and for some years ran vessels between the Isle of Wight and Calais, in France. Mr PeHey was one of the old Albertland settlers, arriving- in Auckland in 1862 in the ship William Miles. For some time he was brickinaking up the Waitemata, and subsequently ran one of the late Captain Casey's river boats. In 1883, he entered the employment of Mr G. Rhodes as foreman of plasterers while carrying out the contract for the additions to the Bank of New Zealand, and remained iv that gentleman's employment until his retirement a year ago through the infirmities of age. Ovriug to his fidelity to duty and personal integrity, he was greatly respected.