LATE TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 145, 19 June 1906, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

• (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) SOUTHLAND VALUATIONS. INYERCARGILL, this day. The new valuations for the borough of Invercargill show a capital value, of £1,532,497, being an increase of 17 per cent on the previous valuation; and an unimproved value of £ 689,770, being an increase of 32 per cent. For the borough of Gore the. capital value, amounting to £417,132, shows an increase of 31 per cent, and the unimproved value, amountinc to £183,000, an increase of 73 per cent. Ik GRUESOME DISCOVERY. TIMARU, this day. A gruesome discovery has been made in the bed of the Apihi River near Temuka, wjiere a human hand, thought to belong to a middle-aged female, has just been found. There is not the slightest clue as to identity, but the police are making inquiries. NAPIER SUPREME COURTNAPIER, this day. The Supreme Court sessions opened today before the Chief Justice, who expressed regret that he could not congratulate the district on any diminution in crime. Commenting on the number of cases of a sexual character, Sir Robert Stout referred to the evidences of lack of parental control of girls who were allowed to go about as they pleased. William John Goldsmith and Tai Punoa, pleaded guilty to carnally knowing, and James Madden entered a similar plea in regard to a charge of assault. All were remanded for sentence. Terence Patrick O'Brien was found not guilty of breaking and entering at Wairoa, Robert Morgan pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering at Kaikora, and was remanded for sentence. WELLINGTON, this day. Mrs. Dick, who was injured in the train accident yesterday, was cut by falling glass, and is suffering slightly from shock, but her daughter is uninjured.