HOKITIKA.
• Thursday. The Supreme Court opened here to-day. W. T. Fowler pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny from a dwelling house, and was sentenced to six months imprisonment! Charles • ygren wa.3 acquitted on charge of maliciously wounding Elizabeth*Campbell and Magnus Nicholson. The Grand Jury threw out the bill of criminal libel: in the case of Davis versus Potts, of the Reefton Times. - Great anxiety is felt here about the steamer Waipara. She had over a dozen people On board, besides mails and 25 tons of cargo. Letters from Okarito, dated 30th September, report heavy gales with high surf and flooded rivers in the locality where the Waipara was last seen. There is only a very email insurance on the 'steamer. The Times suggest that the Government should send a steamer in search from some Southern port.. Captain turnbull (harbour-master) went south in the p.s. Lioness with the search party, on behalf of the owners.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3007, 4 October 1878, Page 2
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155HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3007, 4 October 1878, Page 2
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