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[FROM OO"R OWN OORRKSI'ON'nKNT.] NAPIER. This Day. A claim is being made to considerable property iv the White Road, by Solomon of Fijis. It appears that a person named Davis sold the property some years ago as attorney for Solomon, without possessing the requisite authority. The manager^of the IBank of New Zealand, acting for Solomon, has instructed Mi\ Lascelles to test the - question by an action of ejectment. The present holders are J. Rymer, J. Monteith, H. Monteith, H. Williams, and J, Scott. WELLINGTON. This Day. Mr... Lemon received: a cable message from Adelaide last night* that the men on board the Sorata .knocked off pumping with a view to get out some cargo before abandoning her, but the water rose instantly, and they had to pump again. AUCKLAND. This Day. A quantity of wreckage of a coasting vessel has" been found on the breach at Whangapoua. The first number of the Observer, an illustrated weekly paper ; -was i issued yesterday. On Thursday evening, jewellery valued a^<£lOO was stolen from the City Club Hotel. The jewellery belonged to the landlady. The police have made a raid on the . milkman, yesterday, several, of whom were fined for adding 16 per cent water to the milk they sold. . The degree of L.L.D. was publicly conferred yesterday in the Choral Hall, on R. H. Ratfcray of this city, by the Rev. David Bruce, as representative of the Chancellor of the New Zealand University. There was a large assemblage, and Judge Richmond delivered an address. Jacob Sneft who was fined £100 for smuggling, was yesterday fined 20s. for having gold dust in his possession which he had not paid export duty. : Mr. Dufaur, for defendant, contended that as the gold had not been removed from the colony, there could have been no export, but the Bench held that removal from one port to another was an export. HOKIITKA. This Day. Yesterday morning a carter, na^nied George Rowley, cut his throat with a razor, and when found, he was qtiite doacl. He had been drinking for some time past.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1125, 18 September 1880, Page 2
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