WELLINGTON.
■:: '" ' -■ ■■'/■■'■ 'ft^: vV'::;'::;'This day.:' At the ; Magistrate's Court "to-day, H. H. Lewis was charged with a breach of the Prison Act in having secreted a number of articles with a riew of handing them to the prisoners in Mount Pleasant gaol. The prisoner had been convicted of forgery, but had had a portion of his sentence commuted, having accepted the office of common hangman for the colony, in which capacity he had executed six convicts, his last victim being at Napier. He was sentenced to one month with hard labor. ■; r ': -. ■; v '■ ■. ■ ■ '."' ' ■ ■;,. /
Albert Bellman, master of the Gladstone school, was found dead on Nghauranga road last night. He had been thrown from his horse. He was a native of Erancej and leaves a wife and several children. He is believed to have property in Canterbury.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4860, 7 August 1884, Page 2
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135WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4860, 7 August 1884, Page 2
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