WELLINGTON.
Tuesday.
D'Urville Island copper mine shares were sold yesterday at £2 10s, being 30s premium. • The Post last night contains a paragraph stating that a respectable citizen who witnessed the attempted escape of the convict Hawkins asserts that when the pursuing warder came in sight of the prisoner he called upon him to stop or he would fire. Hawkins replied, "Don't hit, sir; I will'go back quietly ; indeed I will." Notwithstanding that, he knocked the prisoner down and kicked him vio* lently, while some spectators called out, " Don't kill tho man.."
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2964, 15 August 1878, Page 2
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92WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2964, 15 August 1878, Page 2
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