TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
(per press agency.) Christchurch, Friday. The steam road-roller was tried yesterday with success. J. G. Warner, late railway engineer, was presented on the eve of his departure for Australia with a testimonial and a purse of sovereigns. Auckland, Friday. The inquest on the exhumed remains of Mrs, Scott, who died at Onehunga in childbirth, was concluded yesterday. The verdict was that she died from rupture of the uterus, and not from malpractice. The evidence regarding the analysis showed that l-1000th part of a grain of arsenic had been found on a linen cloth laid under the chin of the corpse and placed with it in the eoffin. The theory was set up by the Coroner that arsenic might have existed in the bottle out of which ginger beer was given to the patient. A large meeting of the licensed victuallers was held last night. Resolutions were carried to the effect that it is desirable to abolish outside lamps and reduction of license fees; also, ia favor of petitioning Parliament for Sunday hours. Colonel Nation has been elected unopposed first Mayor of Parnell. A man named Thomas Neallie has been killed at Papakura by the falling of a limb of a tree.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5034, 12 May 1877, Page 2
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203TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5034, 12 May 1877, Page 2
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