DUNEDIN.
July 8. At the Supreme Court to-day T. Flynn was found guilty of perjury , committed in -the Resident Magistrate's Court at Palmerston South. He brought an action there to re>» cover £40 from M.'s Brown, a widow, an hotelkeeper ; and swore that he gave her m cash to keen for him, and that she also der tamed a cheque to the value of £20 It was proved that Mrs Brown got no cash from him, and that she gave him change for the cheque m full. Sentence was deferred pending the decision of the Court ot Appeal on a law point reserved. The case against Stewaet McComle, for sheep-steal - ! ing, at Lawrence, occupied all the afternoon, and at the adjournment three witnesses for the Crown remained to 'be examined, the jury being locked up all night.' ■ - Mr J. Fulton, M.H.R.,' has forwarded to the Otago University £105 (one half os the lionorariqm) to* forih the nucleus of a scholarship. The tfniyersity Council have agreed to recornmned. the Presbyterian Synod to found a chair pf nat" ural philosophy
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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1240, 10 July 1884, Page 2
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178DUNEDIN. Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1240, 10 July 1884, Page 2
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