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(FROM OCR OWN: CORRESPONDENT) WELLINGTON. J ! .. Monday.
At the Supreme Court to-day the Grand Jury brought in true bills in all the eases joxce p_t;-thatof : I)©vere.ux prchar geel Xvf i th'' arson at ; the ; Hutt. John Wigersteff, for stealing^'horse from Marshall, who wai guiUjT, r and-'.sentenced to a year's hard labor
:@e|r|4Williams, stealing a milk cart arid' horse, wafkenteflced to eighteen months' mpnsbMeni) Charles Frederick Thompson, two charges of forging and uttering,; was found guilty, and sentence deferred. Captain Sharpe, an old settler and for ; uierly' Collector of Customs at -Wanganui, died this morning, aged 74. Heavy storms with rain are'reported in all parts of the colony. Damage to roadi and railways is small. j • The Government will probably proceed with the discussion of the Estimates to morrow, in order to push business, 130 unemployed at Timaru have offered to accept the Government terms. A Cooktown telegram states that tl|e mail steamer : on' r a triplfrom Singapore to Hong ( Kong, narrowly escaped seizure by the Chinese on board. The plot was discovered through a conversation being overheard. ' The passengers wore mustered, and all hands being armed, 25 Chinese were arrested. Their boxes contained loaded revolvers, and packets of powder with fuses attached were discovered. On the arrival of the vessel at Hong Kong the prisoners we're handed over to the authorities.
The Bowen also bring* news of the arrival of the New Ireland colonising steamer Genie at Singapore on the 7th June. She had three feet of water in her holdj and.her engineers had deserted her. Bradlaugli has taken his Beat in the House of Commons.
An action has been brought: in the Queen's Bench' division of the High Court of Justice against Bradlaugh, to test legality of permission granted him by the House of Commons to make affirmation instead'of customary oath,
- The match- between the Australians anc Newcastle-on-Tyne Eighteen was drawn, largely in favor of the former.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 508, 6 July 1880, Page 2
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