LATE TELEGRAMS.
SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ? WESTPORT, this day- " Owing to the large number of scarlet fever cases the Westport schools have been closed.
. f. TRAIN COLLIDES WITH TRAP. " 3
DAXXEVTRKE, this day. A cart, driven by an elderly man named John Foster Smith, a tea dealer, waa struck by the mid3ay express at the Piri Hti crossing. Smith, who waa severely injured about the head, waa taken to the hospital.
TARANAKI REVENUE RETURNS.
NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The total of the customs receipts at this port for the year just closed was £41,093, as against £34.657 in the previous year. The revenue collected on April Ist was also a record for a single day, being £759.
HOTEL LICENSE ENDORSED. \
GISBORNE, this day. For permitting drunkenness on his premises during the Waipiro race meeting, the licensee of the Te Puke hotel was fined £5 and had his license endorsed.
CRUELTY TO A HOUSE. j
GISBORNE, this day. At Port Awanui on Monday a native was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for cruelty to a horse. He set dogs on the animal, and they tore its flesh. Afterwards he allowed the horse to fall over a cliff, and subsequently tied it up in a native settlement all ight.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 2 April 1908, Page 3
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