BLUFF NOTES
POLICE COURT. (From Our Correspondent.) A sitting of the Bluff Police Court was held • yesterday morning, Messrs G. R. George and J. Torrance, Justices of the Peace, being on the bench. A charge was brought against a local man that he did break and enter the premises of Messrs Mackerras and Hazlett and steal twelve bottles of brandy. The police applied for a remand until the following day which was granted. A charge was brought against a youth named Neil Francis, of being an idle and disorderly person and having insufficient means of support. Sergeant Tonkinson stated that the defendant had been hanging about the shipping for some days. As the Probation Officer was inquiring for him he was remanded to appear at Invercargill at 10 a.m. this morning. Yesterday morning it was found that a steerage passenger from Australia named David Wright, aged 66, had died. Deceased was emaciated from neuritis and the port medical officer had refused him permission to land in New Zealand. The body was brought ashore and his friends in Auckland were communicated with. The body will be sent to Auckland for burial. Deceased is stated to have a daughter resident in Rotorua. It is stated that one of the local fish and oyster firms has acquired one of the Norwegian whale chasers now at Paterson's Inlet for the purposes of its business.
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Southland Times, Issue 20200, 10 June 1927, Page 10
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