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(lIY TELEGRAPH. — PUKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Monday. Thk Tainui arrived late last night from Hobart. Her detention was due solely lo a succession of head winds and heavy seas, with thick weather, off the Tasimnian coast. On Saturday night the safe was tuken bodily from the Upper Hutt railway station, the thief having apparently employed a trolly to remove it. It is said to have contained about £15 in notes and stamps. This morning Herbert Allendale, who has just completed a sentence for burglary, was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in this and a similar burglary at the Fielding railway station. His Excellency the Governor has consented to act as President of the lawn tennis tournament in Dunedin, on 2(sth, 27th, 28th, and 30th December next. The boxes of Mr Henry Wilkinson Brooks, a passenger by the s.s. Tainui, which arrived in port last evening, are reported to have been opened during the voyage from Home, and the contents stolen. Up to the present nothing has been discovered to justify tha arrest of any person on board the vessel. Mr Brooks was a passenger for Hobrirt.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2639, 11 June 1889, Page 2
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189LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2639, 11 June 1889, Page 2
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