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(IIY TKI.KGU.U'H—I'HKSS ASSOCIATION). TIM4RI7, Last Night. Tiik calendar of the criminal session, which opened this morning, contains the names of fifteen persons. In his address to the Grand Jury, His Honour Judge Premlergast said the charges were mostly of an ordinary nature. A man named Hans Forgcn Peterson committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself in a shed. He was a fisherman by occupation. No cause is assigned for the rash act. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Zealandia with the English mails of the !)th August, left San Francisco for Auckland on 23rd August, contract date. The Alameda with the colonial mails of the 11th August, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on 30th August, contract date. At the Supreme Court tiie Grand Jul found no bills against Frederick Porrian felony, and George A. Bailey, libel. Harry Walters, alias Ivuto, charged with house-breaking and entering was acquitted. MASTERTON, Last Night. The body of Isaac Priest, who lias been missing from Eketahuna for six weeks past, was found floating in the Deep Creek yesterday. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. At the inquest on Robert McKnight, the evidence shewed that death resulted from strychniue poisoning, and that he had been depressed in spirits for some time, and had purchased strychnine on August 20th. Ilia accounts were correct. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2830, 2 September 1890, Page 2
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221INTERPROVINCIAL. Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2830, 2 September 1890, Page 2
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