CASE OF ALLEGED STEALING OF WASHDIRT.
(Fbom Oub Own Correspondent.) Reefton, January 22. Robert Hnghes and William Daffy were apprehended yesterday on a charge of stealing dirt from the site of the oW Caledonian Company's battery, Larry's creek. The battery has long been dismantled, bat it was discovered that the building, which had been left standing by the company, wa3 burnt down, and the dirt was being bagged away. The accused were remanded till Friday. January 25. The gold-atealing case against Wm. Duffy, and Robert Hnghes by George Wise, manager of the Caledonian Quartz Mining Company, was heard yesterday. The accused were committed for trial. The evidence showed that the battery was burnt down on Saturday, the 17th inst., and the debris under the stamper boxes snd tables had been scraped up to the solid bottom and removed. It was traced along the track to Potter's creek, and a heap of the debris discovered there. Signs of washing up and globules of quicksilver were also found, and some amalgam in the hut occupied by the accused.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1927, 29 January 1891, Page 14
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