AUCKLAND.
December 23.
The German gun-boat Habicht, after a seven months' cruise amonst the Islands, has just arrived. She punished the murder of two German subjects by tbe burning of a village and the hanging of a native.
At the Police Court to-day William Weston, a bookmaker, was fined £5, and costs £4 4* for assaulting Mr Eathbone, the proprietor of the Observer newspaper. Tbe cause of the trouble was a paragraph giving a list of Southern bookmakers with which it was not safe for tbe public to have dealing, Weston's name not being mentioned in the list.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3269, 23 December 1881, Page 3
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