(From the Evening Star.)

Frederick Plummer was unable to profit by his Auckland experiences. As was the case there, whenever he affected an escape, he was sure to take to acts of petty pilfering which soon put the police on the proper track, and led to his capture. He adopted a similar course here with the same result. The supposition that Plummer got into one of the pavilions at the cricket ground,, and stole a suit of clothes and other property from it, turns out to have been correct ; but that he went into the bush at the Glen, "rigged" himself out there, and stayed there any time was incorrect. While that bush was being carefully surrounded, he was leisurely pursuing his way through the heart of the City ; and while the police and warders were searching almost every nook and corner in Caversham, he was living at his ease in a hotel in town, going out oc casionally at night to do a little shop lifting "to keep hiß hand in." These facts confirmed by himself since' his' arrest, were known two or three days ago in some quarters ; but the information given was not clear enough to lead to Plum mer's detection. It was, however, sufficient to establish a conviction in the minds of those to whom the information was imparted that he was prowling about Dunedin. A series of till robberies had been going on principally about the Water of Leith ; aud from the manner in which they were effected, and particularly from a circumstance con nected with one of them, Plummer was 1 asso ciated with them. But before proceeding to particularise them, we may mention that Plummer appears to have first shown himself in town on Friday evening, when he found his way to White's Queen's Hotel in Albany street, where he inquired for sleeping accom modation, but did not obtain [it. While there he appears to have read the Evening Star which contained an account of his escape, and made some observations upon it. The next day lie took up his quarters at the Rainbow Hotel in Geoige street, where he has lodged up to the. time of his ar rest, which occurred at half-past nine o'clock last night. 