TELEGRAMS

Southland Times, Issue 19381, 3 September 1904, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

. ■ ♦ — Per United Tress Association. AUCKLAND, Sept, 2. The Supreme Court granted a decree nisi in Thomas Torljett v. Margaret Torbett, on the ground of desertion ; James John Frater v, Adelaide Aniiette Frater, for desertion ; and Kate Hiarding, Atterbury Vi Cieo. John Atterbury. WELLINGTON, Sept.. 2. J The Newtown Licensing' Committee met to-day. The police presented a favourable report concerning the licensed houses in the district. Decree nisi wus granted in the divorce case John Henry Hooper, v. Frances Hetty Mary Hooper. HAWERA, Sept. 2. A public meeting passed resolutions urging the construction of a railway to Mount Egniont ; the establishment of a coach service to Dawson's Falls and the Mountain House ; and that a universal lu.ltholiday would be unsuitable m country districts. WANGANUI, Sept. 2. The following dates have been fixed for matches of the Wanganui team s southern tour -.—Canterbury, 10th September : Southland, 14th ; Otago 17th ; North Otago, 21st ; South Canterbury, 22nd. TBIARU, Sept. 2. In a ballot for a lease-in-perpetuity farm, held to-day, for 231 acres surrendered in Roseiwill settlement, 21 applicants balloted. For a forfeited farm of the saane area, in Eccleston settlement, 40 were balloted. There were also 10 applications rejected. WESTPORT, Sept. 2. Salvadore Varsaggi, charged with assault on David Petersen by biting off a portion of his ear aboard tho steamer Pukaki, pleaded guilty, and was fined £5. The Bench was lenient on account of Petersen being the aggressor. CTERISTCHJURCH). Sept." 2. William Henry Sutcliffe was charged at the Police Court with unlawfully using an Instrument, and was remanded till Tuesday, the Gth. Thomas Lawrence, charged with being an accessory to the alleged offence, was also remanded 1 . At the Chamber of Commerce today Mr Mearea said that he thought the idea was prevalent that, the area under root crops had enormously increased during the past few years ; as a matter of fact, the area was practically the same" as five years ago. ' being 569,639 acres, as against 569,-

- Agenta for Southland.— 07.3 in 1808. He believed the fallingoff in the flocks of the colony was righting itself. During the current year the number of ewes, had increased by .150.100. having r-aclu-d 10, 091. ,041, of which 5,070.72.. wero in the South Island. Alfred Robinson was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for tho theft of a watch and chain from a drunken, man.