AUCKLAND,
This Day. At an Executive Council held yesterday, the Governor commuted the sentence of death on Wi Warepa, the Chatham Islands murderer, to imprisonment for life. The Governor will visit Sir George Grey at Kawau on Saturday, and remain till Wednesday. He will then proceed to Cambridge, the Hot Lakes, Napier, New Plymouth, and Wellington. C. B. King, foreman at Austin's Boot Factory, who, a short timo ago, was stabbed by au apprentie, named Hugh Storey, while chastising him for misconduct, was charged at the R.M. Court with unlawful assault. Austin stated that he had delegated his authority to the foreman to chastise apprentices ; but the Magistrate held that such authority could not be delegated, and lined King 40s with £3 7s costs and ordered him to be bound ovor for three months, with two sureties of .£4O each. Storey awaits his trial for stabbing King.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1218, 12 January 1881, Page 2
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147AUCKLAND, Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1218, 12 January 1881, Page 2
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