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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2920, 9 June 1888, Page 2

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Pahiatua, Saturday

A license has been granted to Mr D. Crewe, the applicant pledging to build a large addition to his present premises within six months. J. Crimp's application was opposed, and the hearing was adjourned to 18th June. The application for a license for Hull's boarding house wasrefused. E, Naylor's application was withdrawn. Mr Stewart obtained a renewal without any trouble. Wellington,' Saturday.

Mr Ross, M.H.E. interviewed the Premier in reference to applications made by Messrs R, Hudson & Co,, Neill & Co., and Pi. Greig & Co., Dunedin, and lie has been authorised to state that the machinery now on its way out, and which had beon ordered previously to the tariff resolutions being passed will be exempted from duty, Wellington, Saturday. William Glenn a commercial traveller of Dunedin died suddenly of apoplexy at the.Albert Hotel at 9 o'clock last uijghfc,

DETERMINED TO ESCAPE. 01 in CnnisTciimiCH, June 8. si Jonathan Roberts escaped from q Eipa Island between 12 and 1 to-day. » The prisoners wore counted into the 11 shed at 12, and on counting out at 1 ft Roberts was missed. He must have a broken through the back of the shed, ( with the connivance of the other prisoners, and swum ashore. He got nearly an hour's start. 3 Later, f Jonathan Roberts' escape was evi- f dontly made by the assistance of his f fellow convicts. The gang working i on Ripa Island numbered about 'lO, i in charge of five warders. There were also several Artillerymen on the Island. At noon the convicts were locked up in , the mess-shed, a corrugated iron : building, for dinner, the Artillerymen i mounting guard outside. On mustering the convicts at 1 o'clock, after t dinner, Roberts was missed, and it 3 was found that a sheet of iron had ' been removed. The island lies about * 50yds from the mainland, and as it I was high water at the time of his escape, Roberts probably swam across " the strait. The remainder of ( the r gang were at once brought off the d island and lodged in Lytteltou gaol, it The police and the Artillery were soon in pursuit. Inspector Pender ir went toLytlelton at 4 o'clock. Roberts' II coat, soakedswith water, was found 50 yards up the hill on the mainland, but V up to the present no further trace of ll him has been obtained. Four constables and two Artillery-men are now scouring the hills for him. He is said i. to know Banks Peninsula well, having in at one time lived in Akaroa. xl 11.45 p.m. s. The party which went in pursuit of "k Roberts has returned, having found no k" trace of him. A cordon of police has been drawn across the hills so as to °f cut him off from reaching the plains. jj e A party of sportsmen who were shootb ing over the hills in the locality where n' he escaped, state they saw nothing of lie him. The warders and Artillery-men w wore messing in the same building with the prisoners when he escaped, ft The door was not locked but a sentry J,j' stood at it. Roberts was one of the he first to enter, and probably slipped ic, through a hole in the wall, which had of been prcvionsly prepared for liini while iru the others were taking their seats at

the table. The hole was seen by 1111 Artillery man, who went round to the back of tho building after finishing his dinner. This being deemed suspicious, the prisoners were counted, and Roberts was missed.