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& —_ (FP.OJI OUE OWtf COKRESOTDBNT) WELLINGTON. Friday, The enquiry into the conduct of two constables in arresting a drunken man was resumed to-day. Twonty witnesses, including a number of children, were examined, the general tendency of the evidence being that complainant was helplessly drunk. The constables examined his leg, but finding nothing paid no attention to his complaints. Dr Gillon said it was with difficulty that he found the break. The magistrate expressed his opinion that it was tho system, and not tho men, that was to blame. Judgment reserved till Monday. ; ; The disturbance by native prisoners on Ripa Island is incorrect. Some constables refused duty and were fined £2 and dismissed.
Captain Steele, for the Lincolnshire farmers, has applied for 17,000 acres in the Aroha block, Auckland. : Sir G, Groy is ill at Kawau, The Danae has been instructed lo proceed to Fiji for tho new Governor. A man driving a cart at Oxford, Canterbury, was eeriously injured through colliding with a train. It is reported that the Albanians have burnt Dulcigno. Alderman McArthur has been elected Lord Mayor of London. Italy's large ironclad of fourteen thousand tons, three feet armor, is launched. Garibaldi has resigned his seat on the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 584, 2 October 1880, Page 2
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