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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 12, 24 September 1874, Page 4

'■ Mr. M'L'fc«n,' ibhis ''odper ob trie [native, race, in the '"•Ne"w'- ; ' , ''ZMlapH 7; ]^ahabook/ estimates that the na'it'es Mave' ! decreased ' fri m about 400,000 souls in; 1820 to k0,60& now, of whom . 37,000 are iv the- fcFoith Is and..-- :, r , ~ „.„,:,:_ ( ! •.•.ii- ; In HoUitika (says .an : exchange) ! there dveeHs'' ( a ;pVibfica^)'''^wh6se''nain,e;' isj Jphn< Roscpe. • Now it habpened'tnat in. the' course' of 'the' hearing of afcfiraiiial case iv the PoKceCourty^RoscoeWEvidebce' I1 '' was required for, reference dn appoint ithenbeing raised. s " Fetch , Roscoe,": .sayst,- itbe'i Inspector to a constable, and: he t knowing; nothing of/bppfcs of reference^^patujaliy.i 'coriciuded r th v at R6BCPe" l tne ;t !n'u J biicaii ( iyasV 'required to'give evidence. ■*''.'ss'.:b-£ l 'ne' goes' to the: ppblitf hotise; r ifearnedi'that«Roßc'oe f yt& ;thea at! tbe>bathef' 8 being^'shaye^,. aiiddespite allremptistranc.es, } hurried ijhimVonl: to the .Police . Court. ; 'cOrnfe! along; wid. me *y & ! wanted ;to give ! evidence.'* 1 ' '.Arrived at 'tbe Court, the: ' : XUßpe£tor f ' inquired, "Have you got' - Roscde T J Wfiat^^pt 'jfau. :so doug:?" - -.■« iFaitfi.vWlSinitdit^fpoirce. ; nittni: ." anVI had 'to? wait till he washed'thV latheroff his face:!? .;It; heed' fscarcely ihe > •said.; that; 'w.jie^.^Ue jLi <m^tak^i,tb;|fe -thea constable had -fqUen , info-, was; discovered.: