NEW ZEALAND.
MESS ASSOCIATION New Plymouth, last night. In-tho Supremo Ooutt Jiln Comrie was sentenced to eighteen months for horso-stealing. Blenheim, last mght. A Cbinsman named Philip Falkner was yesterday fined £lO un a charge cf being illfgdly in posunsion ol a preparation of opium. Tiio mix'uro seized had bosn cnGysed hy tho Government Analyst as such. A seeoud charge of smoking opium was dismissed, owing to insufficient evi der.ee. An appeal is pending. Charley Chow Sing, maikot gardener nt P.eSon, was committed for trial on a charge of committing nu indecent nob with tho intention of assaulting a bov, oged 10, a resident of P.cton, who had gone to tho place for vegetable?. This is the first ease of tho kind against a Cbicama l in Now Zealand. Gore, last night, A firo at Mataura this morning completely destroyed two shops and dwellings oeenpied by Cross, fishmcngir, and Reg'shards, drapor and general dealer. None of tho contents wero saved. The insurances are : Cross, stock and furniture, £l2O in tbo San; Englehardt, £4OO n Ibe Royal. Tho promises wero owned by Bachop, and insured for £2OO in tho New Zealand.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1870, 27 September 1906, Page 4
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