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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 June 1880, Page 2

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*-^— — *-, — ~ — [BT 'EIiEOTHIO TELKQItAPH.] [PKH TBESa aaSOCUTION,] Feison, June 21, The charge mod' 1 Bgainst Acton Adams will commence on Friday before a special jury. Mr Pitt, M.'d.11., has been summended by AcUmi? as a witness. OitET-TcnuiJca, June 21. Eicliard Wood, for burglary at Coss and Ha'.lensfein's, drapers shops, was committed for trial. Several cases of selling drink in prohibited hours, and allowing gambling in fleeced houses came before the Bench lo«day. In ©tie-instance for allowing ' a shilling in and the winner shou',' a publican was fined £10, and the Court cxi pressed a determination to put down the practice. x We sling. ton, June 19. . ; At a conference of licensed victuallers, the folfowing propositions will be discussed :~»One is to the effect that a 1 licensed victualler^ fire insurance com* 1* pany be formed, sind the other affirms ' the desirability of forming an amalgaraaled a>s iciation for {he whole of the Colony to be registered un ier the Friendly Societies Act. A few good specimens of auriferous quarfz have been discovered in Tite ' Lerug (Fiji.) A Government -prospects ing party has gone out. Tl\o discovery was made by a New Zealand miner.