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MORE WARLIKE NEWS. General Komaroff’s explanation is held by the English Press to show that he provoked the encounter with the Afghans. His troops are said to be continuing their advance towards Herat. Several Captains of Volunteer companies intend applying to Government for permission to recruit their companies up to one hundred men. It is also proposed to form a company of Engineers in Dunedin, An Auckland telegram to-night says ; “ Trewhellar, an inmate at the Lunatic Asylum, while working in the grounds attached to the Institution this morning suddenly struck Thomson, a warder (recently from the South), on the neck with a pitchfork, killing him instantaneously.” H. M‘Alpine, formerly a livery stablekeeper in Christchurch, was thrown from his horse on the Sumner road yesterday, and died this morning. At Blenheim, John Wilson, alias Coburn, has been committed for trial for criminally assaulting a girl nine years old. At the Supreme Court to-day in Dunedin the prisoners Myall and Eastwood were found guilty of robbery in one of the back streets from a navvy. Eastwood got four years and Myall three.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 835, 14 April 1885, Page 2
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