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WELLINGTON. T!m day. , William Michael Downes, clerk to Messrs Brandon and Son, solicitors, was arrested on Saturday for taking stamps off deeds and using them again. He will appear before the Resident Magistrate this morning. Anderson, journalist, charged with insanity, has been remanded for another week.
The Penguin having reached hero safely will be put on the slip this morning, and will leave for Nelson and Picton this afternoon. She got ashore at Boat Point, four and a half miles from Picton,
• It is stated that Captain Williams' object in going to England is to purchasa a fleet of steam colliers to trade from Westport and Greymouth to various parts of the Oolony, and that ono of the Union Company's skippers will shortly go home to bring out the first of these vessels, The Hon Mr Oliver, Minister for Publio Works, arrived from the South per Stella yesterday,
AUCKLAND. A boat containing five persons capsized in the Hokianga River, and the passengers clung to the bottom of the craft until rescued, One was a a married woman, with a three-weeks-old child in her arms, and both were saved. The destruction by fire of Guthrie and Larnach's saw mill, Manukau Heads, involved a loss of nearly four thousand pounds, TIMARU. A valuable gold-bearing quartz reef has. been discoverd in. the vicinity of Waihaorringa, East Waimate. The stone ■goes six ounces to the ton. The locality is kept quiet.
HOKITIKA. Gisborne, addressing his Totara constituents, received a vote of confidence. He opened up no new political views, ' MELBOURNE. The post of the search and capture of the Kelly gang from first to last was twenty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-five pounds. LONDON. 25th. In the House of Commons a motion for the retention of a British force at Candahar was rejected by a majority of 120. Considerable discontent is expressed, both at home and at Natal, with the terras'granted to the Boers,. Negotiations between the Ambassadors and the Porfe have been finally condiirnakingfurther concessions. l
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 728, 28 March 1881, Page 2
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