WELLINGTON.
Monday.
It is stated that the Government will bring down the measures on which they intend to stand or fall within a fortnight after the meeting of the Assembly. These measures will provide for change in the representation, of the colony, change of the incidence of taxation, aid manhcod suffrage.
From information received by the police it would appear that a well-organised system of horse-stealing has been going on in this district for some time pust. The horses are being shipped away as soon t* brought in. JSeil and Buckridge were recently arrested on suspicion and brought up today on two separate charges. After taking a good deal of evidence prisoners were committed for trial on both charges.
One Jacobsen, alias Count Mouravieff, has been committed on a charge of obtaining money by means of valueless cheques. He passed himself off as a Russian Count who was making an official tour of the colony to report upon.
An extraordinary death occurred in the Theatre Boyal Hotel on Sunday night. Just aa the lodgers were about to retire to bed, one of them fell from the oval aperture in t'le upstairs floor on to hit head on the billiard table below. The moment before he was sober and chatting pleasantly with the others. Ha was a young man named James Abeam, and only lived a few hoars after.
Thiiday. The Australia with the Frisco mail is due at Auckland to-morrow afternoon.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2831, 12 March 1878, Page 2
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241WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2831, 12 March 1878, Page 2
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