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Inangahua Times, Issue 51, 3 July 1878, Page 2

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[RY rcr.rcoT.iuc thlkuiuiulj™ [pkk punas ArtSocr.VTroN] HiiKNMiKnr, July ~. A houao was burnt down nt daybreak yesterday morning, nt; Mahiilcip:uvn. It was in Mm occupation of a Mm llopo, who barely escaped in h"r night dross. One child was burnt, to xlonth, and another is not oxpeotud to live. DtfXKM??. Tt iS contemplated lo form n company with a capital of £100,000, to establish commumVutioti with tho Voniusula side of tho harbor. A document is about to be eircm lated for aigunturo oxprossiuj; <«onfidonco in Ball»^.vt(/s .itf ministration, of juaticonnd attributing tho present di;sputo to tho jealousy of tho lawyer^,. Henry Driver will probably coo teal, tho vacancy for Uoalyn. Tho election resulted in n majority for Ollivior of 111. Tb«» voting Ivifj^ Olltvior 760 ; lloovos, GSS Ollivier'* parly worked hard, but; scarcely any effort; was mado on behalf of Reeves. The ease of 0. K. llaw'ht.on v Uon! and Fenwiek, appear.! in tin? list; of common jury e:\Hcn fof lUond.iy ncjet. In tho Supreme Court; to-day in I ho case of Adolnhiii Frederick Hardy, committed nil Oinborno f«>r trial nt. Wellington, for striking and knocking aom > teeth out of a man who enrsed I Her Majesty the Q'i<vn, the <lrand Jury mndo n proaoni muni, stating that the chnrgo waa without a tithe- ofovi • denco to support it, and , tho country should never have been put; to unno j eosanry expense in sending nuch a caso for trial. Seven or oi<»hfc witnesses had been subpdo laed to attend. CuKT.-Tcnuucu, July 2 Tho Supremo Court sat till nearly 10 o'clock lust ni'»ht.. Kmilo lluskissi-r nnd A, V, Wilson, for >»arotlin^, th.i former an old offender, w.ia nonteneod to 14 years, and the latlor to twolvo months. David Wright, for passing a valueless chrque, to i' 2 mouths. ' J :;;■;, Woodford, 5<S year.i of n/'o, formerly third master in U.e Kasi, Climtrhuivi? School, wao charged with commitiing r. rape on one of the scholars, atr.-d }.) ynnrs, was found tfii'lty «nd sentenced to inn yours. The Grand Jury found a trie bdl against; Mrs Stoolo, for th : murdop of hor son.