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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON. This day. The firemicr is confined to his bed through indisposition, The new Supremo Court buildings were u,sed yesterday for the first time, Its acoqstic qualities are bad, and the clatter of feet in % passages, and the slamming of the multitude of doors ja not at all conducive to the quiet conduct of business. The Judge's charge was inaudible. Downes, for stamp stealing, was acquitted on two charges, but another charge remains for trial against him to-day. AUCKLAND. The half-yearly balance Bheet of the South British Insurance Company shews a profit of £15,733, of which a dividend of ten per cent., will bo payable at. once. Expanses on gross receipts amounted to twenty per cent, pwing to business in America where commissions are high. ■ Tho Te Aroha murder case will' last several days. Frank Campbell, an old .journalist, was found deafl in the Free Lance Office, yesterday. BLENHEIM. A Maori named Kepa q|arralled with
liia'unole Peni, and they fought, Kepa's wife asßißtinpf Peni. Peni died on Sun-and-Kepa has since been arrested. The cause of the quarrel was jealousy, NEW PLYMOUTH. v: Parris, Civil. Commissioner, denies the truth of the statement that deaths from contagious disease are occurring at Parihaka.
LONDON. Arrived Steamer Northumberland, from Wellington, Bradlaugh has been re-elected for Nortampton. .■..>: France has given an assurance that it will not annex territory in Tunis.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 741, 12 April 1881, Page 2
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