INVERCARGILL. 6th January.
Din j anuary. The nomination of candidates for tbe Mataura seat took place to-day at Gladstone. At the show of hands there were 5 for Kinross and 4 for Shanks. The poll is to be taken on 15th January. At the Police Court, J. Gnat, D. Murray, and J. Reid, the parties engaged in the row at tbe Government cottages on the Ist January, were brought up. A serious case was disclosed by the eviaence. Grant was sentenced to three months' hard labor, Reid to one month. Murray was dismissed with a caution. Charles Lindsay, for using indecent language in an excursion train on the Ist instant, was fined £5.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 313, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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113INVERCARGILL. 6th January. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 313, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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