INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.
[FROM OUB OWN COEBBSPONDaNT.] Wellington, Oct. 23. A rumor is current in ,the. Lobbies that Messrs Hurst,, Colbeck, and Wood have been in communication with the Government, and that they are likely to join the party, Auckland to get half a million. The Opposition are uneasy, fearing this defection may take place. Those members named deny ( that the rtunor is true—but that there is some foundation many believe. (FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) • DUNBDIN, Oct. 21. At the Fire Brigade's supper, held last evening, Mr G. W. Eliott, foreman of the jury in the trial William - Waters, stated that everyone ,hsd. been censured for the Octagon fire except the proper person, and that was the man who set fire to the building. The jury could not convict a niati on the evidence given at the trial for an offence "for : which' he would have to go to the gallows,, and' he thought that the public generally .would share that opinion. ■-■•'.-.; '
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 341, 24 October 1879, Page 3
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161INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 341, 24 October 1879, Page 3
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