AUCKLAND.
This Day. The School Committee dismissed the schoolmaster at Wairoa South, because he ordered a boy to write as a piinishment 20 lines and then extended it to 23. The Education Board have reinstated him. Thomas Williamson Brown was yesterday charged with committing a rape on Mrs. Jane Rountree, late of Wellington, but the charge was dismissed. The annual Orange celebration yesterday assumed a magnitude greater, than those of preceding years. At the civil sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday, 'the case of Lynch v. Ansen and Co., was heard. The claim being one of £271. The plaintiff had become surety for timber supplied for the building of the Napier Quarantine Station, and was called upon to pay. He pleaded that the timber for which, he paid was used for a separate contract of which he knew nothing. A verdict for defendant was returned. The man Austin, who was supposed to. be l3'ing m a trance, was buried yesterday at Pokeno. Dr. Dalziel made an incision m the leg on Saturday to see if the man was m a trance state, but nothing appeared but fat. No blood being visible. The lower part of the body, was quite green.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 835, 15 July 1879, Page 2
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