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.-. - « r -^.^- .r. ,-Wblwnoton," May 33L« - Kinross' case came pn again to-day, but made little progress, as the evidence of native witnesses had to be taken down in* both Maori and English* ; tTh^ ohief witness to-day wasParamena^ whose evidence was to the effect that Kinross now claimed f as his certain land for which he had given payments in spirits and other goods, getting the witness, who did. not understand English',; tq sign,treating documents in that language, the same as native. The case has been further adjourned to the lOtKJuAfcM* . ; V. *-"'/•. i ■
June 2. ! »! A woman named Imagene Flanders aj;-' tempted suicide yesterday by throwing herself into the harbor* She was mu< h exhausted when rescued, and 'wai taken to the Hospital. , . -; . , Dun^pin, June 2. ' A man named Sloven's 'working at tlie< steam laundry, was found drowned at •odßatt'lßflaoft,with a bottle of brandy lying near. He leaves a wife and family. Napiee, Tune 2. , McLennan has been committed for triiJ' on a charge of poisoning his wife. -. i .'<P*ft. .chief ,]Herata Tufhau, wa»/phftrgdd: with obstructing the railway' here at tie tPoliqe, ]&mssMc*Sfr\h lnsppctot ,Spnl& said he was instructed by the GrOTernmeit ■ pii\ withdraw, jot^e, 4n|ormat^nj f as.irthpje were extenuating ci'rcumgtances, prisoner having been forcibly ejected from a carriage, and had allowed his temper to gilt the better of > him. ■' He Hkd, 'hoWeve:-, given notice to the stationmaster of his intended obstruction, and- no doubt thought' he had a right to prevent the train passing through his land. The I Rifil.! hojied the case would be a warning to : prisoner, who i had rendered hihisefir liable t?o penal servitude for life, i , < '
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XII, Issue 9435, 2 June 1879, Page 2
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