TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
+ {l>Y TkI.KCKAI'U.) ( I I'tvss Jvv.< ><l I !■■!!.) Ciiristciuiu ii, This day. The Minister of Lands accompanied by Mrs and Miss McKeiuie left today for Han me r Plains. At a iinjnest 011 John Thome, who was found dead in a drain in the North Belt yesterday, the jury found a verdict that deceased was suffocated, n"o evidence shown how he got in the drain. A man named William Wakefield at the police Court this morning was sentenced to three months as a vagrant. He attempted to pass a bogus t'"> notes on his landlady. Tim\s;' . This day. tieorge Mom -., •■>!! of Mr J. Morres of Pleasant Point, who di-nl suddenly on Saturday and was to be hurried to-day, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor this morning, lie was subject to tit* of insanity and is only two weeics back from the asvluui.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 217, 11 January 1897, Page 2
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146TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Hastings Standard, Issue 217, 11 January 1897, Page 2
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