SUPREME COURT.
—•» ' — [Per Press Association-.] WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. Samuel Cousins and Louis Doyle, who are charged with conspiring tc. defraud several local merchants, by means of a telephone swindle, are being tried at the Supreme Court to-dayl. They are undefended.
A gentleman who died at Surbiton weighed thirty-five stone. It took eighteen men to lift the coffin, which weighed threequarters of a ton. South Australia has about half a dozen Justices of the Peace for every policeman.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6273, 2 September 1898, Page 3
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