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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 January 1881, Page 2

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[BY KLBCTItIC TELKGrRAPH. - it. [FROM OUE OWN COBBESPONDENr.] CnEISTCHOECK, J<*n. 5Walter Gibson, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of amrd*>ring Eerison. at Prebl^ton, and will be tried togmorrow. \ ■•' Junr 6. The trial of Gibsoii for the murder of Kerrisoa, tsnxed for.Monday next. ■:' M deputatjoh including ?lhe Mayor of Greymouth waited on the Premier this morning, in reference to the construction of a Bailvvay to ibe West Coast, they explained that they proposed to undertake the work provided ,fcKe Q-cvernmenfc wotM nuke ■ a r grant of land on the Hue' of railway. ""The. Prduiier promised to lay the matter before the Government at the earliest opportunity. . '. , CHRIdTCHUBCH, Jin. 5. ■'"■'■' 'Wiiilrepa. wa^ sentenced to death to-day, for the murder of his wife at the Chatham Islao Is, be made a long and pointless statement, when called on by the Judge to say why he should not' be sentence-), the burden of which was that they tried to give him medicine in bisippd jindl his^ disr, like of the doctor '^^^^^^^P^ he said nothing bear^^te^^n)|t|^p The jury at first waniMia^^cmiatcrid prisoner to mercy on account of his wife's adulery, but the judge aaid'tha' no evideiice had been brought on the poiut, and returned a verdict of guilty AtrcKLATfD, Jan, 5 Joe, the Fiji murderer, has got qdite fat nnd sleek in Mouqfc Kden Gaol, and bus obtained the sobriquet of ' Happy.' HoAiTiin>,, Jan. 4. 'Robert Armstrong, a^ miner, has been missing since Monday last, the police and about a hundred miners are searching for him io the neighborhood of the Big Paddock, ibere he was last seen. It U supposed be jbaa fallen down an abandoned shaft