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[krom oxtr own correspoxdknt.]
WELLINGTON.
This Day,Another body was taken gut of the harbor yesterday, making the fourth ■within a fortnight. A disturbance took place yesterday, between two prisoners of the hard labor gang working near Newtown. After some angry words, a fight ensued, and one of the belligerists received rather severe bruises on his face. The disturbance was soon quelled, and the combatants taken before the visiting justices, when the assailant was sentenced to fourteen days' extra imprisonment. The Native Minister is expected back in Wellington during the course of to-day.
AUCKLAND.
Thia Day. Gr. M. Reed, formerly of the Otago Daily Times is on hig way back to the Colony as the representative of a large and wealthy special settlement parfcy, for whom he will select a block of land. The first of the party, numberine twelve or fourteen families, bringing with them £60,000 or j£70,000, will arrive in Auckland or Napier some time in December. The mail steamer City of Itf ew York collided with the Wharf on Monday, when under charge of the captain of steamer, who has paid to the Harbor Board the amount of the damage done. James Andrew, bellman to Garrard of unemployed celebrity, was sentenced yesterday to two months' imprisonment for larceny of a chest of tea.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1128, 22 September 1880, Page 2
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