SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 273, 17 November 1910, Page 2

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NOT WASTED IN TEE 3TAVY. WELLINGTON, this day. A nEui who bad been arrested on a Hawke's Bay station on a charge of having deserted from TT.Ms. Tatixanga in 1904, was before the Court to-day. ■ It was stated that the naval anthori--1 ties did not want him back, as the alleged desertion took place so long ago. The man was therefore discharged from! '• custody. i _ A SPRINTER. ' DUNEDIN, this day. j Holway, the wotWs champion sprinter, , after making his first Australasian appearance at Hobart, leaves for Danedin \ on December 23. , FERE IN" DUNEDE*. 1 DUNEDES", this day. ' A five-roomed dwelling in Cannongate- * street "was burned down ai two o'clock ' this morning. Mrs. Gode, whose husband is a marine engineer, and her child, the sole occupants, escaped in their night ■ clothes through a window. The house and furniture were insured in tbs Stan--1 dard for £350. i OOMVKJTKD OF BURGLARY. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. At tJie Supreme Court to-day three flaxmill hands—John Earnsha-w, Henry Robert Hunt, and Leslie Ellis—nrere charged wdth having broken and entered the Levin Hotel, and stolen a safe, valued at £ 15, and contents, including some £60 in money and cheques amounting | to £55 9/1. Tihe jury returned a verdict of giiSty against Barasihaw and Hunt, the foreman intimating that they j could not agree so far as Ellis was con- J cerned. Permission was granted for a retrial oi the latter, the other accused being remanded until Saturday for sen- i tence. I