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A daring burglary took place in Grahamstown, Auckland, on the 10th inst. Some persons effected an entrance into Messrs Barnett and Levy’s store about that time, and stole a large quantity of tobacco, cigars, and other goods. The night was a bright moonlight one, and the store is situated in the most populous part of Grahamstown, only a few doors from the police station itself.
jf According to the police returns the population of Westland is as follows:—Ross, 2000; Okarito, 270 ; Kanieri, 2000; Stafford and Waimea, 3155 ; Greenstone, 750 ; Hokitika district, 7000 ; Grey district, including Clifton and Maori Gully, 3SOO. The Westland County Council is to meet for business on the sth of next month. A son of Mr Pollock, of the London Tavern, Hokitika, has been seriously injured by being run over witb a velocipede. The Grey River Argm states that in a case reeently heard at the Ahaura, the plaintiff swore that the washdirt that he was working at Antonio’s Flat would give one ounce to the load, and that he could get two loads a day.
The ship Inflexible, from London, brought eighteen yellow-hammers for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, from the London Society. The birds arrived in excellent condition.
The Southern Gross and Hew Zealand Herald have redticed their price from threepence to twopence per copy. Death is fast thinning the number of settlers who formed the pioneer body of Nelson in 1842, and this week has witnessed the departure of a very worthy and highly.
respected member of that body, Mr John Nixon, at the ripe age of 80, and who therefore must have been 52 years old when he landed here, upwards of 28 years ago, from the Lord Auckland—one of the three emigrant ships which iirst left England for Nelson. Mr Nixon had scarce a day’s illness in his long life, until the natural frame wore itself out, and to within a short period of his death he was tolerably active, his erect and venerable figure rendering him always conspicuous.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2168, 19 April 1870, Page 2
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338PROVINCIAL ITEMS. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2168, 19 April 1870, Page 2
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