PROVINCIAL NEWS
[united press association.]
Auckland, April 1. Tawhiao and party leave for Sydney to-day en route for England. His Excellency the Governor returned from Waikato yesterday. He sent a message of condolence to the Queen through the Secretary of State, relative to the death of Prince Leopold. Melvin Dawson, a lad aged 14, was killed at KLawaka, through the kick of a horse.
The City of Sydney and Rotomahana had an ocean race from Sydney to this port. The City of Sydney left Sydney Heads at 3.40 p.m. on Thursday, and the Rotomahana at 5.25 p.m. on the same day. The Rotomahana caught and passed her opponent on Friday afternoon, and reached here at 7.35 o'clock last night, the City of Sydney arriving here at 1.30 this morning.
Sailed, at 6 p.m. the City of Sydney, for Honolulu, with the English mail. Wellington, April 1. An address of condolence to the Queen on the bereavement her Majesty has sustained by the death of the Duke of Albany has been forwarded by the New Zealand Government, through his Excellency the Governor and Secretary of State for the Colonies. P. K. Watty was to-day committed for trial on another charge of forgery. Christchorch, March 31. The ship Oamaru takes Home 9623 frozen sheep (cross-breds). The City of Nankin, the first graiu ship of the season, takes Home 12,810 sacks. | OTAGO CRIMINAL SESSIONS, i Dunedin, March 31. At the Supreme Court to-day George Lockhurst on five charges of getting | goods from tradesmen by falsely repre- | sentieg that he had been sent for them I by a doctor was sentenced to three years; and F. W. Carroll received a similar punishment for stealing clothes from the Dunediu Gaol, from which institution he had been discharged the same morning. In the case of W. Yeomans, found guilty of indecent assault on a little girl, sentence was deferred. The jury are now out in the charge against Henrietta Hunter, of stealing £IOO, the property of William Shaw ; it is alleged that she stole the money from Mr Shaw, with whom she was gossiping. When arrested in Christchurch about £7O was found concealed in the feathers of her hat. April 1. The jury in Catherine Himt?i\s case were unablo to agree, and a fresh t:-:>| will take place to-morrow. William Yeomans, convicted y-'Kk."--day of indecent sissiinK was sentenced this morning lo .L.: , ~uV iiard labor.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2370, 2 April 1884, Page 2
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