PROVINCIAL NEWS
| UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, December 24. The Gazette notifies that the Queen has been pleased to approve of the members of the late Ministry retaining the title of honorable. Ven. Archdeacon Thorpe, who has resigned the incumbency, was to-day presented with a purse of 175 sovereigns by tho paridiiunci-i).
A large number of Salvationists left for Christchurcb to-day to take part in the approaching Congress there. Auckland, December 24. The Bank of New Zealand were fined the lowest penalty £SO, for a breach of the Mining Machinery Act iu not renewing the liceuse held by the bank for crushing. A prisoner named Edward Murphy, sentenced to four months for larceny, escaped from the hard labor working party while in charge of a warder clearing the grounds of the Supreme Court. It has been ascertained that Sheehan, suspected of the Castletown murder, has had £365 to his credit in the Bank of New Zealand siuce his arrival here and allowed it to remain on deposit till he purchased the farm.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2592, 26 December 1884, Page 3
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