CHRISTCHURCH.
COUNTERFEIT COIN CASE. EMBEZZLEMENT BY AN EXEDITOR. RANGITOTO SILVER MINE. June 25. At a meeting of the Drainage Board today, a letter was read from Mr. Car_ ruthers, resigning the appointment of Consulting Engineer. The consideration of the letter was postponed. It is rumoured that a new morning
paper is to be started at Tiniaru. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, W. H. Capons, the boy arrested for endeavouring to pass buttons in imitation of a sovereign, was committed to the Industrial School for 18 months.
A youth named Peese, charged with a j similar ofi'ence, was committed for trial. Thomas H. Fielding, formerly editor of the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, was brought up here to-day, charged under the name of Hiram Walter Paterson, with having embezzled moneys belonging to the Harebin Town Council, Victoria, in the year 1873. Insjiector Buckley said the total amount embezzled was about LGOO. Prisoner was remanded till July 24. June 26. The calendar for the Supreme Court Criminal Sessions, commencing on Monday next, is unusually light. A private letter from the West Coast says that over lOOOfeet of tunnelling is completed in the Rangitoto silver mine. The specimens of Canterbury marble sent to England have been very favourably reported on.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 366, 26 June 1877, Page 2
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