AUCKLAND NEWS.
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, Last Night. The pearling ketches Bittern and Edith, built for the Thursday Island trade by Messrs Lowe and Brown, at Whanguroa, have left for Thursday Island. A seaman named Michael Rayncs was fined £3 for smuggling tobacco. A. B. Taylor, charged at Paeroa with issuing valueless cheques, . was committed to take his trial at the Supreme Court.
William Colson, seventy years of age, shot himself in hid bedroom this morning at. Newton. Deceased was well off, but it said to have been failing mentally of late. At the inquest a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. Deceased had been in the pearl fishing trade in Northern Queensland and suffered from a painful rupture. He had no family.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 336, 3 September 1898, Page 2
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123AUCKLAND NEWS. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 336, 3 September 1898, Page 2
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