ARRIVAL OF AN IMMIGRANT SHIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 599, 14 January 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF AN IMMIGRANT SHIP.

Napier, This Day. The Adamant, with immigrants, from London, 96 days, came up the Bay yesterday. A smart earthquake shock was felt last evening at 6. 20. The immigrants, per ship Adamant, were all landed m good health, and will be open for selection here. Kecently two building contractors' firms sought refuge m tiie Bankruptcy Court, which has thrown a number of carpenters out of employment. To-day, Searfe and Co., large storekeepers, filed their schedule. Their liabilities are said to be £4000. A man named Vernon Campbell was committed for trial to-day, on a charge of forging a cheque for £36. He went to an unsuspecting horse dealer, on Saturday evening, and told him he was & horse dealer, and was purchasing horses for Auckland and Wellington. ' He said he had sold a horse that day for £36 to Mr. Archibald M'Lean. After -leading his victim on, he expressed a desire to see what horses he had for sale, - when he was shown several, and chose two — one he was to pay for at once, £12, and the other on Monday. He then handed the dealer the forged cheque, and m return received a receipt for the horse, and Monteith's (the dealer's) cheque for the balance of £24. He left, and when the cheque was presented by the dealer it was found to be a forgery. He cashed the dealer's cheque, but when arrested none of the money was found on the prisoner.