AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
(Per Wairarapa at the Blbff.) - '.'. ' ( BY. TELEGRAPH.) ~'; '"'^"'^ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION^ .j. '•. Melbourne, August 22. Tee* trial of the Chinaman Ah Ket for the murder of bis fellow countryman, Ah Yeong, m, Little Burke r street,^ m June last, was concluded on Saturday^ when the prisoner was acquitted, 1 the evidence not hbing sufficiently strong. ' ; vv'hite, vinegar maker^of St. ; Kilda,j was arrested m Sydney on Thursday' night on board the steamer Lady ßo wen, bound for Newcastle. Ie is believed he intended to make his way to San Francisco. Many rumours are afloat, as to the extent of his forgeries, sums beiog stated variously from £865 d' 'to^ve^ times that amount. / -v*'^ ' The trial of ' Hooper and r Mw Carter, well known m connection with theCarter. insolvehcyj for making a false declaration of their names on the occasion, "of the marriage of the female prisoner . to Carter, resulted m each being sentenced to a week's ; imprisonmenjbi ; as.thB H Judge" < said that,, although the was committed, there was- "no'4ritehtidn ' to* defraud anyone. j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 229, 30 August 1883, Page 2
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173AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 229, 30 August 1883, Page 2
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