LATE TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 115, 15 May 1906, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

SU KUTSME COURT SENTENCES. WELLINGTON, this day. In the Supreme Court to-day Francis Gordon Waddell, found guilty of assault on S. Gilmour, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.

TUB CEMENT WOKKS FATAHEY

DUNEDIN, this day.

The inquest was resumed to-day on Archibald McKay, who, with a fellow ■worker named Anderson, is alleged to have died from the effects of poisoning at the Cement Works. McKay's wife said he told her he had been mixing some acid in a cask to burn the zinc off some wire-netting, and that he had inhaled the fumes. Dr. Evans was of opinion that death was due to poison circulating in the blood as the primary cause. MISCELLANEOUS TrKMR. •

, WANGANTIL this day. Mr i. T. Hogata, MBiEL, hae telegraphed to the "flerald" re the terrible state of the backblocks roads and the sufferings of the settlers in consequence The roads are seas of niud, and settlers are having an awful time. The Ohakune mails hare to be taken in by paekliorses for the first time in ten years.

WESTPORT, this day.

The Westport borough population is 3645, as compared with 2922 when the last census was taken —1734 females and 1911 males.

WELLINGTON, this day.

The Government has accepted tenders for the erection of twenty-five workmen's homes- at Petone. The prices are said to be well within the estimate.

To-morrow Mr MaTchant, who is retiring from the position of SurveyorGeneral, will be the recipient of a presentation from all the officers of the Lands and Survey Department in the colony. The Hon. Hall-Jones makes the presentation.