The Late Riot in Melbourne. —The Argus, 16th December, says:— William Cross, the unfortunate boy who received a gunshot wound iu the right breast on the night of the 27th November, in Steplieuetrcct, expired at, the Melbourne Hospital at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mrs Cross had not been gone above half-an-hour when her son died, apparently without pain.
Cakes and Consolations of Office.— Elsewhere will be found a paragraph under the above heading, copied from the Wellington Independent. By papers received yesterday, we perceive that the bon. E. W. Stafford, in a letter to the Editor of the Independent, characterises the statement therein put forth as “ absolutely untrue.”
The Prince and the Admiralty In. STEuctions. —The Melbourne Herald says —A writer in a New Zealand paper states that Sir George Grey received a message from the Prince, intimating his hope to spend Christmas in New Zealand ; but Commodore Lambert refused to recognise any departure by the Prince from the route laid down in the instructions of the Admiralty,
Prison Commission.— His Honor Mr Justice Johnston, His Honor Mr Justice Tuchmoiid, the Hou. Colonel Peacocke, C, E. Houghton, Esq., M.H.E., and James O’Neill, Lsq , have been appointed a Commission to enquire into and report unon (he working of the prison laws, the management, &c., of the gaols in the colony, and tho desirability of founding a General Penal Establishment. The Commission is to report within six months.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 538, 30 December 1867, Page 2
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