Dunedin News.
[by telegraph—press association.] Dunedin, last night. William Richard Brookes, who pleaded guilty at Invercargill to breaking and entering and stealing articles of the value of £2, was brought before Mr Justice Williams, and sentenced to six months’ hard labor, to commence at the expiration of the present sentence.
AN INTERESTING EVENT.
Waikouaiti was on fete when the 61st anniversary of the arrival of the brig Magnet with settlers was celebrated by a picnic and social)' under the auspices of the Early Settlers’.Association. Waikouaiti was a prosperous whaling station before that date, but whales becoming very scarce, Mr John Jones who owned the station, turned attention to agricultural. and pastoral pursuits, and brought from Sydney in the Magnet fifteen' families. Of these, only eight are at present alive. Three heads of the families still survive—all women, one being 86 and two others 84 years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 62, 14 March 1901, Page 2
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