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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 149, 2 May 1879, Page 2

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(PER PRESS AGENCY.) , 1 WELLINGTON. 1 j Thursday, ( It 1b stated that it is.intended to establish 1 a Chair in the Now Zealand University for ' the instruct! on of mining, engineering, and j surveying, and that certificates. of compe- ] tency will bo granted by tliis body in those J branches of science. . j It is said that Kealls will probably be pro- ] ceeded against for attempted suicide. 1 Everiss, lately headmaster of the Mount Cook School, advertises that lie will opon a j private school "in which great prominence 1 will be given fo Bible reading." It will be supported entirely by voluntary contribu- ; tions. ; It is said that already about £IO,OOO has ! been spent in attempts to float the Hyderabad. She will shortly be sold by the Under- ( writers. WANGANUI. Thursday. George Worgan's trial lasted all day. At midnight the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of forgery, find guilty of uttering with out intent to defraud. The prisoner said he could not understand the verdict, but admitted that he had an impartial trial. Had he been at liberty he would have beon able to procure exonerating evidence. Ho trusted to public opinion arriving at a different result than that of tho jury. He threw himself 011 the meroy of the Court. Judge Richmond, in passing. sentence, said lie would take into account tlint in all probability tho prisoner did not intend to the full amount; he had merely dabbled in crime. Sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. A fatal accident happened yesterday to a a sawyer named Thomas Mitchell, recently from Hokitika, while cross-cutting a log in the bush a few miles, from town, when tlio log rolled over' and crushed him to death.