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• FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, This clay. E Bunny, M.H.R, as Chairman, and Messrs Beetham, M.H.E., Plmrazyn Riddiford, and Taylor aro gazetted as members of the Wellington District Cattle Board. s CHRISTOHUROH. James Scott, manager of several large properties, has been sentenced to two years' hard labor for forgery and defalcations. ■ , .Been, Auctioneer, at Amberley, for selling sheep not carrying his brand, was fined a nominal penalty of £l, TAURANGA. The contractors for raising the Taupo are now making a kauri bottom which will be placed imdei the vessel previous to her towage to Auckland docks, AUCKLAND. . Samuel Brown, an old merchant, for various acts' of larceny and burglary, was found guilty, but is not yet sentenced. Bell, stationmaster, for embezzlement, was sentenced to three years, • '.. LONDON. The Tunisiandifficulty with France has intensified. -France is endeavoring to acquire territory not her own. Italy . is alarmed at this opposition to her. interests, but France givss an assurance of friendly; intentions, , v . , : A terrible earthquake Jias occurred in
the Island of Soio, in the ifgeah Sea, It is estimated that five thousand pgrgqns have met with their death, and the loss of property is immense. Beacnnsfield is progressing favorably. Adelaide wheat has risen Is, .New Zea* land remains at 46a New Zealand securities unchanged, ' "
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 738, 8 April 1881, Page 2
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