Christchurch, Yesterday. A child named Hannah Longford died at the Quarantine Station on Sunday morning from whooping-cough. She was eighteen months old, and was one of a family of five children that arrived m the ship Opawa. The ship's doctor recommends that the remaining patients on the Quarantine Island should now be released. In the Supreme Court to-day, Harlock, charged with forgery and uttering, was acquitted. Casey was convicted of larceny, and sentence was held over. Abool, a colored man, was convicted of larceny, and sentenced to six months' hard labor. George Bread, charged with breaking into a dwelling house at Ashburton, pleaded guilty, and received a year's imprisonment with hard labor. The Court sat till ten minutes to seven this evening. The comparative returns of the goods traffic on the Christchurch and Dunedin railway show that the revenue for the four weeks ending November 16 was £37,930, against £26,854 m the corresponding period of the previous year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 594, 8 January 1879, Page 2
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