[Tlte follovAng appeared in our tw of Saturday last: —] * „- It is reported that Mr. C. E. Haughton. will contest the seat for Wakatipa at the general, elections.
On Monday evening last, a deputation, of the leading crtizen3 of Clyde~ waited upon hial Honor Judge Gray, and presented him with' /< an address expressive of the high esteem they ~ entertained for him, -both as-Judge of the* District Court and aa a priv ate gentleman. The.interview.was a very brief one, 'his' Honor being in a very weak state. . On Tuesdayhe left by coach for t Lawrence,! bat, owing to, the inclemen,t state of the weather, remained at the Teviot" _He was able to resume-his" journey by the coach 'on- Thursday.—' Dunstan. Times.' - -
Wr/are indebted to our Glyde contemporary for the following case of larceny he-mi . at Qiieenstawn on AVednesday—" Willi-un Jackson Barry and Elizabeth Sloan,, house-' maid at Powell's l"a'mily Hotel; were charged before the Resident Magistrate (It. Beetham, Esq ) with feloniously stealing clothes and a s gold ring from her employer's dwellings on or ■ about the 19th instant. Mr.-IT.' J. Finn ap-' peared for the prosecution; Mv. Wesley Turlun for the defence The clothes wereseLied by the police on Saturday night last in Bairy'siouse. Mrs. Powell and several other witnesses identihed them as her property., Mrs. Powt.ll also stated that she believed she' had been lobbdd of over £lod woitlioi'property besides. Other witnes.es proved that they found Barry in Powell's back yard on. the night of the robberv between the hours of midnight and three o'elook the folio win" morning. E viduice was also given that after tlie female prisoner was asked about the' goods she was seen runn-ng very hard from Barry's house towards Powell's. This early in the afternoon. &he afterwards lefc Powell's, and was" not, seen till two o'oloeir ou Monday morning, when she was arrestel- bythe police. When the case for -the"■prosecution was closed.on Wednesdav, Mr Turt9i> put "forward, no defence,' he lneieiy said there was no larceny, as the goods cbuld be r..co-" vered by aen d action. Both prisoners were remanded until to-day, when the Magistrate was to give his judgment. , Mr ' Beetliam, in proceeding to do so, said he liad-no doubt bu„ that the clo'thea found m Baivy's house belonged to" Port-ull, but he-would not u.nnuii, as it would coat-the Government i>s;;o : and statedjthnt another<infpmiatV>n f"T the sane offence could be laid against the lemaiuprVo" ner, to be dealt with sjuniaaiily., ±iuiL p-x'-soners-\,oie dibci.ar^cd.'-'
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 318, 2 April 1875, Page 3
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