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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3522, 29 May 1890, Page 2

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f (united PIIEBS ASSOCIATION) J Uisborub, May 28. The Maori, fiawhiu, was smartly I captured by Constable Hansen, Auckland, May 28. [ Tho Commissioner of Police, Major . Gudgeon, has inspected the stations 1 in the Auckland, Thames, and Waikato districts. Ha returns to Wellington to-morrow. Amongst some new specimens received from America at the Auckland Museum, is a magnificent one of the orangoutang, about 4ft high, The well-known Rotorua guide, Alfred P. Warbricb, whs charged ai the Police Court to-dny with having disobeyed tho order of the Court that he should contiilmto-to the support of bis wife and children. The case was adjourned, thedefendant's counsel raising the point that the order was not valid against the defendant, as be la a Native. The Hinemoa has arrived at sajj>pra from a cruise in t)ie tforth. When paying Russell the vessel almost ran down ji c.utjtep wjiiol} ps not Blowing any fights, a 'gprip.us accident being prevented pply by Csptaln Fairobild's promptitude in giving the order " full speed astern."

The Collector of Customs at Anckiniiu, Ml' Hill, has requested the Haffp'mnate! 1 At Onehunga 'to ascertain whotji# Jjg reapjifSaranco of the lin|l of the di'phejjß |s,dfi|Stp its having been washed upoti the l beach by tho waves, or whether the course of the channel has been changed since tho ioss of the vessel by the silting up of the bank ill whioh tho hull is embedded. By the wreck of tj)o cutter Rose Blanche, at Mangswai, tjie whole of the crew-'Williani Aubrey, master, aged 37 j Henry Aubrey, aged 85, and a'boy named Albwt Eoeluick—haye beendrowjied. "William.Aubroy leaves a wifo an,d ,o.np plijjJ, IJi.s brother Senrv was upinarried. They were sons ol ilr. 0, P, Aubyoy, lata Bwideut Magistrate of Wiwogaffli, Tho early closing movoinmjl; continues to grow in public fuvouiy and sever?! sbn|ikeeper6in theKaragahape road, one of tnd prominent business streets of the city; and /roffl which the greatest opposition 'WM. feared, have stated their intention pf closing at seven o'clock,

J'he Jlasonio Judges, St Audrey and the Pnjtfid SjeryJce, fiave ;been formally opened under tha dfgpomwir. tlon grsntfid by the Grand jjjodge of New Zealand, .CnwsicmmcH, J r &y gS.. James .Holmes, found guilty of forging and uttering, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour.; Josiiih White, found guilty of fraudi4ent bankruptcy,

sentenced to 6 month's hard - : lnboiir! William King pleaded guilty to stealing £23 from a-Maori, and wan sentenced to 15 months' hard labour; William Pigott, itemised of complicity ill tlio same case, was acquitted. Duhkdin, May 28. Themembcra of the Resorvcs Conservation Society • waited on the Mayor this afternoon, and handed over to the City Corporation a fountain presented by Mr Woolf Harris, and ereoied on tho triangle reserve, The Mayor, in acoeptinc; it, 6iud lio had no doubt the oxainplo sot would be followed by others, Mr T. Fergus, who returned to town to-day, will leave for Wellington on Friday morning,

TiM of Life. Oamaru, May 28. Tho body of a man mined Robert Stevenson, a small farmer at Waitaki North, was found in tho Waitaki river yesterday, The deceased left his house on the Bth of February after a quarrel with his family, saying he was going to do away with himself. He was seen by a person walking down tho river Bide, but had not been heard of since. ..The remains were very much decomposed, but were identified by tlie ; clothing. At an inquest to-day a verdiot of found drowned was returned, .

ACIMTS, Gisbohne, May 28. A man named Owen McGrath pas thrown from his horse and sustained concussion of the brain, Ho is not expected to live, A man named Swann, in killing a calf, let the knife slip and cuthimself in the thigh. He nearly bled to death, but is now recovering.

, A Crood .He'p Auckland, May 28. A football mutch between the Ponsonby and Grafton Clubs, given as a benefit to Mrs Conroy, mother of Denis Conroy, who died from injuries received whilst playing* that game, ycilded £BO.