NEW ZEALAND.
(press association tbleorams.) YVELLINGTON, June 2. Tha Times publishes a detailed account of the way in which Constable Murdoch is ollegad to have escaped last year. In consequence of his refusal to pay the coats of an action, a warrant was issued for hie arrest. A friend took a rope into the police station, with which Murdoch escaped through a wiudow, and he lay concealed in a house while his friend ascertained what vessels were unwatcbed. Hβ got away in three or four weeks to Kaipara by a timber schooner, aud thence to Victoria and Western Australia. Murdoch was near.y caught once, and shifted hie quarters only just in time. GI3BORNE, June 2. Mr D. Dougherty, who has acted as Manager for the Union Company at the Gieborne branch for the past tea years, has been transferred to New Plymouth. Hβ will be succeeded by Mr J. W. Cargill, from the Duuediu office. The Harbour Board ie promoting a local Bill for the purpose of releasing a portion of the unexpended balance of the loan now ia the hands of the Public Trustee, to be epeno in saving the breakwater from destruction. The boa nae been making encroachineni.3 ou the pier, which requires further protection by the extension of the wave-breaker apron.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9433, 3 June 1896, Page 5
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