Accidents, Offences, &c.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, J une 7. John Pomeroy, alias William Collins, has been committed for trial on several charges of forgery. He bad only lately been released from gaol, having been sentenced in Dunedin for a similar offence. Henry Halse, ex-judge of the Native Land Court, died rather suddenly last night. - Tbe immediate cause of death was heart disease. He was aged 69 years. A body was found in the harbor this morning, and was identified as that of William Pope, a billiard marker, who was a p 'ssenger on the Koranui from Dunedin to Westport. The body had been in the water seventeen days, and was much decomposed. Cheibtchuech, June 7.
To-day P. Brown and R. M. Griffiths were committed for trial on a charge of stealing wheat from the Harbor Board’s shed at Lyttelton. Auckland, June 7.
A man named Alexander Duncan was arrested to-night on a charge of setting fire to a hay shed on the Kohimaramara Industrial School ground. The damage to the shed wa3 trifling. Mary Simpson was fined L2O, and L 6 12s costs, at Waipu to-day, for sly-grog selling.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 8 June 1888, Page 2
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190Accidents, Offences, &c. Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 8 June 1888, Page 2
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