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[Pun Piucss Aguxoy.] CHRISTCHURCH. July 4. A man named Arthur Roland was committed for trial for manslaughter to-day. Ho was returning from a shooting expedition, when he met a girl •stopping at his fathers’s house. He called out that he would shoot her, and soon after the gun went off, the contents lodging in the girl’s head. Roland said the gun went off accidentally, while carrying it at the trail, but the girl before death told her sister be presented it at her. At the Supreme Court, Alfred Bishop was charged with maliciously wounding a sheep. He was killing sheep, when one became unmanageable. He deliberately cut off its nose, cut both eyes out, and turned it back into tbe pen. He killed nine others before putting it out of its misery. Judge Johnston expressed strong abhorrence at tbe crime, but only s ntonced prisoner to three months’ iripris-la-ment.
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 129, 5 July 1876, Page 2
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