WELLINGTON.
v This day. The criminal session of the Supreme Court opened before Judge Richmond this morning. Nine cases are set down for hearing, none of them being of a serious character. The charge to the Grand Jury occupied only three or four minutes, and contained no remarks of any importance.
Saturday. Shortly before leaving Newcastle, the captain of the Kilmeny insured his life in the Government Insurance Co. for £309* He leaves a wife and family in England. The Agent-General cables the departure of the following vessels for New Zealand: The s.s. lonic, for Wellington, with 228 immigrants; s.s. Triumph, for Auckland, with 290, and the s.s. Trevelyn, for Port Chalmers, with 280.
A prisoner undergoing a ten years' sentence at the Mount Cook prison was brought before the Resident Magistrate's Court and charged with insubordination; be was sentenced to 14 days in a light cell.
Angelique Therasse, whose case was recently before Parliament, was arrested for drunkenness and mulcted in a fine.
The weather is extremely boisterous.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4599, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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169WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4599, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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