PROVINCIAL NEWS.
[united press ASSOCIATION.-] Nelson, June 3. John M‘Leary was to-day sentenced to six months’ hard labour for stealing £42 from Mr Alex. M'Gregor, a commercial traveller. The prosecutor was lying down in his room, and was awakened by feeling a man’s hand in his pocket. Some time ago the Aniseed Valley Copper Mining Company sent a parcel of ore to Hamburg, and returns now to hand show that it yielded 30 per cent, of copper, and silver at, the rate of six ounces to the ton. Frederick Ransonie Seaborn, an exGovernment Insurance agent, was arrested on a charge of embezzling some £2O belonging to the Association, and has been sent to Hokitika, where the warrant was issued.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2729, 20 June 1885, Page 2
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