DUNEDIN.
"Wednesday. George Proudfoot's case is attracting ttfuch public notice. Tlie Supreme Court was again inconveniently crowded. Mr, Jas. Smith's speech in defence occupied two hours and a half in delivery. He contended that the prisoner's proposal to marry the girl Isabella Angus must be treated either as the raving of a lunatic, or as the action of a man temporarily insane through drink. Judge Williams* commenced summing up at • half-past 7 o'clock to-night. The " Morning Herald " is to be published on or about the November. Letters have been received from Mrs. Geo. Darrell to-day stating her re- , covery, and that she played. Emilia, in "Othello," for Mr Pope's benefit in Melbourne on the sth. Thos. Boots, a groom, charged with, having set fire to the Crown Hotel stables at Balclutha, has been committed for trial. , The High School Commission is still taking evidence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 105, 20 October 1877, Page 3
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144DUNEDIN. Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 105, 20 October 1877, Page 3
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