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FER PRESS AGENCY, WELLINGTON. Sunday.
The Bebington arrived with 132 passengers, 135 days out. . She is in quarantine in consequence of scarlatina being on board.
Cheeseman, a well-known old Wellington resident, a membor of the legal profession, is dead. A serious accident happened at Waikouati to a young man out shooting, He was crossing a wire fence when the gun exploded, shattering his arm to pieces. TIMARU, Sunday. The Orange procession yesterday, numbered 40, the Catholics assembled to the number of 400 and attacked the Orangemen, stripping some of the officers of their regalia. The police who had been reinforced from Christchurch, interfered and nine were arrested for participation in the outrage. AUCKLAND. Friday. The barque Inglewood arrived to-day from London, after a passage of 86 days from Start Point. She brings 50 passengers. Messrs Grant and Foster, the representatives of the Lincolnshire farmers, have arrived by the Tararua. They will visit the principal districts of the colony before returning to England. Te Whiti and Te Kooti are acting in concert.
BLENHEIM. Friday. The Marlborough Express has beon sold to Messrs Furness and Boundy. Mr Furness has been overseer for some time on the Express, and Mr Boundy was for eleven years in the Colonise Office, Nelson. The transfer takes place on the 31st December. Robert Gardner, a sawyer, living near Picton, went home intoxicated. Next morning the hut was found burnt, and the man inside of it. An inquest was held, and a verdict returned that deceased met his death accidentally.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 350, 29 December 1879, Page 2
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