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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9510, 4 September 1891, Page 5

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[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. At tbo Sunrcme Court tbo case of William V. Uindon. charged with indecent mi&iuilt on a little girl, baa lusted two cLijflIt closed early this evening. The jury was locked up, and has not yet (midmgnt) returned a verdict. The case baa osoited

great public interest, owing to the socia position of the accused and his relations. By the Ovalau, H. C. Wicks, well known in Ohinemuri mining circles, took over to Sydney a quantity of ore for treatment, by the latest improved method, in Australia, or at Frieberg. The ore was taken from the Woodstock and tho Kenilworth mines at Karangahake. Hr Wicks will examine the latest methods of treating ores in Australia. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. Mr Charles Knight, F.E.0.5., who up to ten years ago was one of the AuditorsGeneral for tho Colony, died to-day, aged eighty-three. Mr Knight arrived in the Colonies in the fifties, and shortly after entered the Government service. The Waihora, which left for Sydney this afternoon, took one hundred and thirty passengers from all ports, and the Jubilee eighty. DUNEDIN. Sept. 3. Another of the students of the Otago School of Mines has obtained an appointment abroad, F. F.. Baldwin having, by last mail, received an offer of an appointment in an assaying institution in India sufficiently tempting to induce him to accept it. He leaves to-morrow via Melbourne.