SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 145, 21 June 1899, Page 5

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, this day

At the Harbour Board meeting Mr Cliff gave notice to move at the next meeting that the Board take the necessary steps to have a Bill passed during the coming session of Parliament to enable the Board to borrow £200,000 for harbour improvements. INVERCARGILL, this day.

In the Supreme Court a jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for £300 in the action Golding v. Wallace County, for compensation for injuries caused by a horse shying at timber on the roadside for the repair of a culvert.

WELLINGTON, this day

At the annual meeting of the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Journalists, there was a large attendance. The report showed a balance in hand of £28 9/6, liabilities about £9. Mr J. L. Kelly (editor New Zealand Times) was elected chairman, and Mr H. J. Kearny secretary and treasurer. The committee was elected as follows: Messrs Lukin, Atack, Earle, Harrison, Eeeves, Ilott,

Leg-rove, Perm, Parkinson, Peyton. The branch adopted the proposals for affiliation with the English Institute.

NAPIER, this day

A shocking case of juvenile depravity was. disclosed at the Supreme Court. Jeremiah John Keene, an elderly man, was convicted of carnally knowing a girl of 13. Other charges, involving two younger girls, were . withdrawn by the Crown Prosecutor. Keene was sentenced to five years with hard labour. Three young- men, George Hamilton Browne, James Newbury, and . Thomas McLauchlan, pleaded guilty to forging and uttering cheques. The first was released on probation, McLauchlan, who was on probation a similar offence when the crime was committed, was sentenced to two years. He is a welleducated young man, from Dunedin. George Ernest Webber was sentenced to imprisonment for one year for breaking, entering and stealing.