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WELLINGTON. Sunday. ELECTIONS. George McLean returned for Waikouafi by a majority of 51. Messrs Pitt and Adams are returned for Nelson. McLaughlin has been returned for Riverton. Kelly has been returned for New Plymouth. Wallis and Hurst have been returned for Auckland City West. Turnbull has been re-elected for Timaru. CHPJSTCHURCH. Friday. The .police have, after diligent search for the missing man, George Vennell, and after the most careful consideration of the
various facts discovered, come to the conclusion that lie lias been undoubtedly murdered, Some pieces of old blanket were found on the river near his late residence, and the result of the anlysis shows that they were stained with what is believed to be human blood. A large stain of blood lias been found on the sand hill, about 150 yards from the house, and it presented tho appearance of being pressed into the sand, as if the body had been laid down there. It has been found by analysis that this blood is. human blood of an age corresponding with the time of the disappearance of Yennell, and that about a quart of blood must have oozed out there. A piece of brown paper, stained with blood has been found in a gorse fence about a chain from the house which appears to have been used in wiping the blood stain—prodably from the hands. The pieces of blanket found in the river, were, it is believed, used by a person or persons concerned in the murder in cleaning the house before the police were informed of Vennell's disappearance, and
the small spots' of blood, subsequently discovered, rausthavo; escaped the observation of the persons who cleaned the house. All the circumstances connected with Vennell's disappearance, go to point to the fact that he has been murdered, and that his body lias been concealed or disposed of in some manner, A systematic and diligent search is being made for the body in some hills near his late residence.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 259, 8 September 1879, Page 2
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