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♦ (Press Association.) W eelington, Tuesday. The Government intend to release another batcli of the Maori prisoners now confined in Dunedin gaol. It is stated that the natives who are to receive their discharge are those who went to Te W hiti from the East Coast. it a meeting of the Executive Council to-day it was decided that the law should take its course in the case of the murderer Tuhi. The day of execution is not yet fixed, hut it will probably be about the middle of next week. Dunedin, Tuesday. A Miss Wilson was drowned at Ocean Beach this afternoon. Kingston, tho proprietor of tho baths, went into the baths and unsuccessfully tried to rescue the young lady. Ho was brought back insensible. Christchurch, Tuesday, i At the .Supreme Court, James Cuuj ningham, convicted of larceny from a ! dwelling, was sentenced to eightjyears’
penal servitude. On receiving sentence, he declared he had been twice sentenced by the same judge innocently. He then thanked Hi.- Honor, and said he hoped Judge Johnstone would live to sentence him a third lime, when it wou'd be for something.
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Western Star, Issue 403, 22 December 1880, Page 2
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