WELLINGTON.
Friday.
In the Appeal Court, to-c'ay, the Crown case reserved, Heglna v v . Barnsley, convicted of forging a money o.der for £10, purporting 1,0 go through the telegraph office, sentence having been postponed Sending the hearing of the case by the ourt of Appeal as to a point raised in the Court below, namely, that prisoner could cot be convicted because the fprgery was rot thai; of an order for payment of the money, but only of a telegram of an order. The Court held that the document could not be regarded as original, and conviction must, therefore, be quashed. In consequence of a number of minor kerosene accidents having occurred since the oue which caused the death of a girl, the police have men employed, who go about in, plain clothes and purchase samples of kerosene at the stores of the different dealers for the purpose of testing, in order to asceiiain where the dangerous oils now wold came from.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2900, 1 June 1878, Page 2
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162WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2900, 1 June 1878, Page 2
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