We extract the following from the Wellington Post of August 2: — Joseph Fry, who was punished for mendicancy at the Magistrate's Court to-day is only thirty years old, but since October, 1877, no has spent not less than six and a*quarter years in gaol in different parts of the colony, starting with a conviction for vagrancy at Christchurch on the let October, 1877, he successively honoured the courts at Waikouaiti, Kaiapoi, Timaru, Christchurch, Dunedin, Lawrence, Nelson and Blenhiem with his presence. Then shifting his residence to the North Island, he was convicted at New Plymouth, Giaborne, Waitara, Opunake, Otaki, Onehunga, Auckland, and Coromandel, and finally appeared in Wellington, where he has again fallen into the clutches of his old friends the police.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 28, 16 August 1887, Page 4
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