AUCKLAND.
; Wednesday. The criminal calendar comprises three 6ases of forgery, one breaking and entering by three: Maoris, one Maori; charged with horse-stealing, one with obtaining money oh false pretences and also with larceny as a bailee and issuing valueless cheques, one of breaking into a dwelling, one with assault with; intent to commit rape^ one with man r . > siaugliter, one mth assault with intent. It is still uncei'taiu what wiil be done with the asylum', patients. v : -, There is great difSculty m providing avcompdation for them, the quarantine station being unsuitable. •■ ' ; . An inquest has been held on.Maigr Ann Fortune, burned at the fire at the •asylum. '• ; ., The .evidence.- given i*by . the night' nurse showed that the patients'were not visited from five o'clock m the: afteri}bpn till the/ fire broke. out,, about, four m the morning. •; The fire commenced m Mrs. Fortune^ cell. The watchman tried to break m the door* but could not for some time/ The deceased often ■threatened I',1 ', to "do for the v bitiidihg,"'but little 1 notice was taken of ; ; her'threats. The inquest has not con- ; i,6luded;: .. -^y ::^--\':'.:,r--'- ; :-\'y-'-
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 99, 29 September 1877, Page 3
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183AUCKLAND. Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 99, 29 September 1877, Page 3
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