SOUTHEBN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1910, Page 6

SOUTHEBN NEWS.

I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) i MURDER, CHARGE ADJOURNED. i ! WELLINGTON, this day. I After the evidence of one witness had j been heard in the charge of murder against Robert Corkill, bailiff, accused was further remanded till Wednesday next. J EX-CONSTABLE IN THE DOCK. WELLINGTON, this day. / Ex-constaMe William McDermott, already awaiting trial on -several charges of j forgery, was further charged to-day with the forgery of two cheques. On-.- of the I cases concerned an alleged attempt to procure money in the name of J. A. Farmer, trainer of W. E. Bidwell's horses, for the purpose of nominating two of Bid will's horses at an Australian meeting. Accused was committed for trialDUCO CLAIMS SETTLED. WELLINGTON, this day. Two of the claims for compensation brought in the i>upTc_-,e Court by relaj tives of members of the crew 'of the I steam trawler Duco, which foundered j between Wellington and the Chatham j Islands, have been settled out of court, ! the owners of the vessel, the Wellington I Harbour Ferries, Ltd., having agreed to j pay certain sums in each case. There jis at least one other claim against the J company still to be dealt with. J A FAST PASSAGE CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The s.s. Ruahine arrived at Plymouth on Monday, having made the passage in 39 days. | WATER POWER SCHEME ( CHRLSTCHIJRCH, this day. i The Mayor of Christchurch, discussing I the Government's water power proposals, j said he welcomed the evidence of the • Prime Minister's sympathy with the i needs of the people in the matter. He I i hoped the Government's scheme would j not prevent Christchurch going on with I its scheme for harnessing Lake Coleridge, •trot if the Government took over the lake scheme, it ought to sell the power to the people at cost' price, and not make the scheme a taxing machine. I CHARGE OF FORGERY. INVERC.ARGILL, Tuesday. At the Police Court to-day John Archibald McKay, who had been manager of the Bluff branch of the New Zealand Lean and Mercantile Agency Company, was remanded on a charge of having forged the name of S. Cooper on the wages sheet of the company. Detective Cameron said there would likely be two more charges, one of forgery and . the other of theft. NEW ZEALAND'S EXTORTS. : WELINGTON, Tuesday. The following are the estimated values ,of New Zealand's principal exports for 1 the fortnight ended March 15:' Butter, £17-303; cheese, £132.602; frozen beef, | £43,537; frozen mutton, £105,601; frozen lamb, £162,874; kauri gum, I £28,680; hides and skins, £43.735; tal- ' low. £48,137: wool, £860,077; timber, £13,092; gold. £61,940: hemp, £13,117. Including smaller line the total for the half month is £1,697348, compared with £_.359,652 for the full month, of March, 1909. AN KXK-NSTVE BULLOCK. PA-T.MEBSTON NORTH, Tuesday. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mrs. Roberts recovered special damages amounting to —S 10/. and general damages of £20 with costs, from Thomas Duncan, of Otaire Station, EOtinterville. for injuries caused by being knocked into a mud_ole by defendant's bullock, which was straying on the roadside at Rorrgotea, near defend—nt's fattening farm at Glen Oroua. IJG_{TE«_ OF ROTORIIA. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Government has decided to extend the electrical generating plant at Okere Falls, Rotorua, and the supply of wires to Rotorua is to be doubled. ____-<XPraaj_roß. I CB___rro_nmCH, this day. Lord Plir-ket arrived this _»nring, j and. went by speci_l train to £__-——, Thence he is motoring to Barr BaD, ; Met-ven, and Mount Somers, and' then Ito Ashburton, where he will be entertained at dinner to-nig-t. He has had ', pleason weather ioT bis -tour. The Hon. Mr. Buddo and Mr. Hardy, MJ?., are : accG—ipanyin _ "him. A WITNESS CENSURED. INv___C__sGr__L, Tuesday. I At the inquest on. Sydney Harrison, a lad of 18 years, who shot himself last I evening, a fellow-boarder, named Spriggs. Stated that deceased had frequently talked about shooting himself, and ' witness had. hidden his rifle. A verdict was returned of suicide while tem- | porarily insane. Spriggs was censured for not having told of deceased's threat to kill himself.