SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 5

SOUTHERN NEWS.

?, ~ A SERIOUS FALL. ' '.. . MASTERTON, this, day. A young carpenter, named Walter Andrews, when ascending a scaffolding at the Prince of Wales Hotel, let go his hold and- fell,- striking some timber. It is feared thebase of his skull is fractured. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. (By raegraph.—Press Association.) .' ! . HASTINGS, this day. From Monday 1 next: the price of bread here will" be'raised' to ~4d cash arid did booked.; '..." ■•'• ■'■-■■ .-j The attendance at■-. the HJB.. Show, on' People's Day",7vv'a's"i*isoo, beating' la*,C, year's record, .by "\" ".'"." INTVERCARGiLL, this.day.'"" • Charles M. Wilsons a man with several convictions against him, was sentenced to-day to three months imprisonment for obtaining money by valueless cheques. Harry Lionel Eddy admitted altering the amount of a" cheque for wages, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. .'. : ~"'..' TATHAPE, this-day. Jas. Hewitt was "-firied'3o/ or with the alternative .of a-.month's imprisonment for having obtained £3 by false pretences from, Thps.' Hafewoodj.. whom he was treating, for .a. private complaint. Jas. Arnott was .'ordered, to pay £5 or :go to prison, for a.month for having obtained 18/-by. means of .a. valueless bank note taken- from the Turakina. He was remandtd on the further charge of having stolen six bank notes. HOKITIKA, this day. The Westland Law Society is objecting to the Judicial Bill, now before Parliament .on the grounds that the proposal to do away, with district courtß will be especially inconvenient to West Coaßt,