Committed for Trial.
OYDNKT, march 11. Deehet has been committed for trial on a charge of setting fire to hie premises in Barrack- Street in January last.
Sydney, March 14. The schooner Leslie has arrived from the Soloman Islands and reports that the master was murdered there by the natives. A rumour was current when she left that Captain Laurie, of the schooner Blackhawk, was also murdered. News from Mount Brown diggings states that the water there is exhausted, and the population have shifted six miles away. One man perished from exhaustion while proceeding to the field, and it is feared that great loss of life will take place unless rain falls.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1358, 15 March 1881, Page 3
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