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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3944, 8 December 1880, Page 3

[JH.BUTJB-i'B TeLEGBAMS.] STDNET, Dec. 8. Arrived — Union Company's s.s. T:i-s»raa, from Auckland. x-i the divorce suit Dibbs v. Dibbs, the jury could not come to an agreement, and therefore were discharged without giving a verdict. James Punch, a well known publican and oarsman, who took Trickett to England in 1876,- when the latter defeated Saddler, is deceased, aged 40 years. AUOKLAND, Dec 8. . A Balk. Private advioes from Taupo report the Natives refuae the eerviceß of lawyers, and the proceedings of the Land Court nave been interrupted. Appointments. Dr and Mra Harvey have been' appointed master and matron of the Industrial Home. Railway Extension. It is atated here that the Public Works Department have accepted Messrs Larkins and O'Brien's tender for tho extension of the Bay of Islands Bailway. The amount is aboufc £25,C30. DUNEDIN Nov. 8. Squatting Property, The Bellamy station has been sold for £17,000 to Mr Samuel Henry. Sudden Death. Mr Charles Howard, the expressman, has died suddenly at Havelock. He had been earning a precarious livelihood there.