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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 4 October 1880, Page 2

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t [BT ELECTRTO TELEGRAPH.] [PRB PRESS ASSOCIA TroN.] Hokitika, September 29 Mr John Bevan has been appointed B.W. District Grand Master in succession to late John Lazir by Prince of Wales, Grand Master of Freemasons in Eneland. The Annie Nelson, from Adela ; de, has grounded on the bar in a bad situation, September 30. Suspicious circumstances surround death by burning of the woman Margaret Hutchison and her child. Tester* day her husband was arrested on a charge of wilful mnrdes.. Wellington, September 29. Considerable reductions will I c made in tbe officers of the police force. Anckland. September 29. George William King bas been committed for trial for selling arms to tbe Natives. Miss Leaf goes south under engagement to Daicy, of Wellington, at £20 per week, to play Josephine in the Pinafore , Company ; thence in a fortnight she goes to Melbourne to join John Lyster's Company. Mr Thomas Gibbons, of the Huia Mills, while cleaning a #un, supposed tn be unloaded, received a charge in the . lower abdomen, but is progressing favour* ably. A settler having been driven off his ' land at Waikare, near Ringairiri, and no reply having been received to his appeals to the Govsniment for protection, the j settlers in the neighborhood threaten to ' raise a corps and tuke the law into their , own bauds.

wmmmammmmm___mEMmmmmmtmmmmmmHmm&mmKamm^mmm_m__mWmmm_mm*mmmm Messrs Grant and Fovsler, Lincoln* shire delegates, offer to purchase land at Te Aroha if they can come to terms with the Government. September 30. The Fijian, Joe, who assaulted boys, women, and men, and killed one poor fellow "with an axe, was committed for trial. The question has been raised as to the prevention of Fijian boys being brought into the colony as household drudges-