Murder in Lyttelton. — An inquest has been held on the body of G-eorgiana Smyth, who was found dead in her bed, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" returned against her husband. The medical testimony proved that death was caused by suffocation, accelerated by blows on the head. Subscription for the Poverty Bay Monument. — At a public meeting of the Poverty Bay settlers it was resolved to obtain subscriptions in the principal places of New Zealand to erect a Monument in memory of the sufferers in the Poverty Bay massacre. The subscriptions are not to exceed half-a-crown. A Farmer refused to hire aa Irishman, because two -previously hired by him had died oh his bauds, (t Faith," said he, " I have wrought in many a place, and niver once played such a trick,"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 270, 17 November 1869, Page 2
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132Untitled Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 270, 17 November 1869, Page 2
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