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Chkistchuroh, April 8. Mr Conyers left Queonstown to-day, and is expected in Christchurch on Wednesday or Thursday. The charge of arson against Schwartz will be heard at the Supreme Court tomorrow.
Wellington, Apiil 8. Ernest Wagner, architect, on two charges of false pretences by means of valueless cheques, was sentenced to a year on each, concurrently. John Sheaie.r and Peter Newton, tried for robbing a drunken mau in an hotel. Shearer was acquitted, and Newton convicted. Sentence deferred.
An affecting scene occured at the lock-up to-day after the prisoner, Earnest Wagner, was removed to his cell. It appears that Wagner was engaged to be married to a lady who has been present in Court during the last two days, and after he received sentence to-day she was permited to see him lor the purpose of saying good-bye. A Law Students' Society has been formed.
A robbery took place between Saturday night and Monday morning from the Athemeum. The liberian reports that on Saturday he left a cash-box, containing £23 14s 6d in cash, notes, and cheques in his de.sk, which, between the times mentioned, was forced open and the cashbox and contents removed. Auckland, April 8. It is stated that a subscription is going to be started to institute legal proceedings against the Government in order to obtain compensation for the widow and children of the stoker killed on the Kaipara line by falling iuto a water-tank.
The Industrial Home escapees were dealt with to-day. Beagstorm six months and flogging ; Hansman and Marrow to be whipped. Thomas Fidget, alias Sheldon, convicted of arson. Sentence deferred. There are doubts as to his sanity. Dunedin, April 8. Messrs Oliver, Driver, and Bastings M. H.R.'s, have sent, by telegram, a strong remonstrance to the Hon Minister of Public Works against the acceptance of tenders for the erection of extensive railway workshops at Addington, near Christchurch, and urging that Dunedin is the proper centre of the railway arrangements of the Middle Island, It is said the workshops are to cost £IOO,OOO. At a meeting of the bookmakers held recently, it was unamiously resolved to post the defaulters of the last autumn meeting without any exception, forthwith.
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Kumara Times, Issue 788, 9 April 1879, Page 2
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