Westport News
EVADING CUSTOMS DUTY. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wostport, last night. At tho Magistrate’s Court to-day, Jas. Crooks was charged with being in tho possession of 6]lb of tobacco, on which tho Customs duty had not been paid. Ho was fined H 6, or treble tho value of the goods and costs, and had the tobacco forfeited. SUDDEN DEATH. Mabel Ralph, aged 5 years, died suddenly at Denniston, on Saturday morning, through drinking a bottlo of cough mixture. The girl was given an emetic, and on being put to bed wont oil to sleep, but was found dead in tho morning. At tho inquest a verdict of death from misadventure was returned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 534, 30 September 1902, Page 3
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