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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3892, 21 August 1891, Page 4

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jpr(Per United Press Association). Breaches of Beer Duty Act. Palmerston North, Friday. H. W. Pascoe, bretter, was fined £SO on two charges of fraudulently neglecting to enter two brews alleged to have been made, and £1 on each of five charges of neglecting to enter the beer sold from day to day, with costs, £5 12s.

Determined Suicide. Auckland, Friday. John Aitken Connell, aged 41, formerly a resident of Dunedin, was found dead from a gunshot wound this morning in a room at Deacon's Hotel on the river. He had gone up last night in charge of a Government Survey party. He ordered his breakfast half an hour earlier, but did not come down. His man went to deceased lying on the bed with a pool otyaust on the carpet. Close at hand was a small revolver recently discharged. Connell opposed the hon. Mr Mitchelson at the election before last, when he described himself as "the tactician." A year ago he delivered a lecture in Wellington on the labour difficulty. It is a strange coincidence that Mr Mitchelson's opponents at the two last elections have boifa met violent deaths recently.