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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 643, 6 March 1879, Page 2

Mr Charles Robinson recently travelled from Jackson's Bay to Cromwell m three days— the shortest time on record. One of the men arrested on the charge of murdering Lord Leitrim has died of fever, and the other two persons are also ill of typhus fever. At the earnest solicitation of his many friends, a West Hill boy consented to allow his name and himself to go before a watermelon patch m the suburbs on Wednesday night. The cenvention was somewhat disorderly, owning to the appearance of a strong delegation from the farm house that came m without credentials and insisted on being heard. It was entirely irregular, of course, but all the same the boy was seized m an inverted attitued just as he was climbtng over the fence, and the chairman of the new delegation fanned his suburbs with a hedge switch until he consented, for the sake of peace and harmony, to withdraw, which he did, at the rate of about a thousand miles an hour.