SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Tainui, Captain Evens, arrived at Wellington from London al 6 this morning. Variable weather was experienced throughout tho voyage, which was uneventful. She brings 17 packages mails, 32 boxes parcels post, and 100 passengers f >rNew Zealand. Peter Dow, a missing Outram farmer, was found aboard an express train at Palmerston. He had beed missing since yesterday. He left a letter telling his wife that he was going to make away with himself, and not to bother searching for the body. At Invercargill Andrew Newton was today charged at the Police Court with stealing 287 sealskins, value one thousand pounds. These formed part of the Gratitude’s take. Accused was remanded. Heavy showers which fell at Timaru this morning were much needed. The bnaking into the office of Mr Kimbley, a Timaru solicitor, and stealing cheques and money from the cash box, proves to be the work of a lad under 12, who confessed it, and was ordered six strokes, and was sent to the Industrial School. Most of (he property was recovered. The boy is fatherless and incorrigible.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 663, 24 September 1891, Page 2
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181SOUTHERN NEWS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 663, 24 September 1891, Page 2
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