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, Per New Zealand Press Association. o SUPREME COURT, NAPIER.—MASTER PLUMMER SIILL FREE.— FIRE AT TIMARU.—MAN KILLED IN AN HOTEL.—PROCEEDINGS IN parliament. WELLINGTON. Tuesday. Captain Chapman of H.M.S. Dido says that the ship Bulwark is now 92 days out from the Cape, ana he is of opinion that she must have encountered icebergs far South, and foundered. NAPIER. . , Tuesday. In the Supreme Court, Shuker, for assaulting Mrs Hardy, of Poverty Bay, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. Judge Johnson said that he would deeply regret it if Grand Juries were abolished. In a colony like this it would bo a great misfortune. Firth, the owner of the Aote Saw Mills has been sentenced to three years’ penal servitude, for receiving stoleu property. DUNEDIN. Tuesday. An inquiry has been made into the circumstances connected with Plummer’s escape. He has not yet been captured. TIMARU. Tuesday. The large stables in front of the Herald Office were burned down last night. They were insured for £2OO in the New Zealand office. INVERCARGILL. Tuesday. The landlord of the Ben More Hotel has been imprisoned on a cuarge of manslaughter. A witness at the inquest swore that he saw him hit the man, Simmons by name, over the head with a potato masher.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 265, 14 August 1872, Page 3
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