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WELLINGTON. This day. Ugly rumors are spreading that a cleric to a legal firm has systematically stolen stamps from deeds for a long time past, using them on other documents and pocketing the money given him by the firm for purchasing others. Detectives have had the case in hand some days, but no information has yet been laid, The statement that certain Civil Servants are implicated lacks confirmation,
The steamerPonguin, Captain Malcolm in command, ran ashore in a fog yesterday morning in coming from Picton, She is on a shingle beach near Waiterangi Point, and is expected to be got off this morning, The Hinemoa went last night to her assistance. Weather and sea calm there. AUCKLAND, . , Zambia, photographer, a relation to the London firm of Zambia [& Negretti, fell off the wharf on.to the deck of the Fanny Thornton, fracturing his . skull past recovery. BLENHEIM, Tho Wesleyan Church has been burned down, It was well insured—to within £SO of contract price. HAWERA, Major Atkinson, in his speech to his constituents, made two important statements—the Government do not contemplate anothor loan, and ten per cent, will not be taken off Civil Servants' salaries this vear, though the rato of salaries will be reduced to what seenliß right, This latter reservation is subject to Seed and Batkin's report, NEW PLYMOUTH. .
A person named Lile, was pouring. sul; phuric acid from a jug into a soda-water machine when the handle broke, and the contents of the jug. were spilled, and Lile much burnt about the face and arms, Fortunately hia eyesight ia uninjured. ■ LONDON. The wool sales continue firm, as also New Zealand quotations. In the House of Commons, Sir Charles Dilke stated that one of Czar Alexander's first actions was to definitely recall General Schobeloff from the Tuscoman's country, and order a permanent cessation of hostilities- there. General Sir Frederick Roberts has been ordered to roturn from the Capo without proceeding to the Transvaal. LYTTELTON.
Arrived—Steamer Norfolk, from Loudon, after a fifty-two days voyage,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 727, 26 March 1881, Page 2
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