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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3067, 13 December 1878, Page 1

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r«. „ Thursday. 'The .'criminal sitting! of the Supreme W;y6K'*jt|».,th...triil of Zipa Wh»r<}»av for itealing a letter containing « ebpqae, tfom.a. mail bag that he was JIDDrWg^ ,M*.3M found, guiUj, and sentenced to three yeah' penal servitude. The arrest of. the prisoner was made under unusual eireumstanees. Prisoner was in a pah about ten miles from 130 froarCtiibbroe. Con•tabl^ Bprrjj reached the pah early in the^i^ortiing,: and. managed to get the prisoner cut quiet)jr' before the other ot^ipants of, thi pah were up. At some l^ttiAHdijifcaQW Ofttside then, was another epniteble! waitiau and on reaching him ■thejprisoaer w«j hurried off to Gisborne. It ii keMewd. thii ia, the first instance that,* native prisoner hatjbeen openly through the Maari«outry. In the case of the murder of the woman at Waiapu, the, prisoners were brought . away bj sea.,"' -■ ■ „ "!;' ,^f. Hj, 1 piojd, who for a number of 'years has held the position ,of electrician and Jnspeetor of Telegraphs on the East Coast; and who is leaving, to take charge ,bf the railway telegraphs of the Middle Island, was presentedtorday with a handsome, marble : eight-day . clock, silver liqueur (frame, silver oake basket, and gold pencil ease, altogether to the value of £50, the gifts of the official? in his.circuit. The presentation was made- through Mr Stringer, officer in charge of the telegraph office here! 1 -*' ""■'• : ' "' '