SOUTHERN COURTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 6

SOUTHERN COURTS.

1 (By Telegrapu.- Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Tuesday. A young man named Patrick Lee, who had pleaded guilty to three charges of breaking and entering and theft in the Wairarapa district, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day. He was committed for two years' reformative treatment on a charge of stealing a horse and cover. On the other charges he was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. DUNEDIN. Tuesday. At the Supreme Court to-day a youth named Bruce Burns, aged 16, who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to forging his mother's name to a voucher for £20, waß ordered to come up for sentence wien called upon and pay costs. The money found on him, over £18, was ordered to be returned to his mother. James Dunn, alias Burns, was sentenced to IS months' imprisonment for forgery.

Information regarding the progress of the Otira Tunnel has been supplied to the Chrrstchurch Chamber of Commerce by the Minister for Public Works. The Minister has advised the Chamber that the tunnel had been fully excavated from the Otira end for two miles and 16 chains, and from the Uealey end 52 chains, at. the end of last year. The bottom heading had been advanced 43 chains during the previous twelve months. The tunnel was bored from the Otira end two miles :JS chains, and from the Bealey end 64 chains. The probable progress during ihe present year is estimated at 40 chains. I At least five paeudo Governments aire 'in eiietenoe in Mexico, says the "Times," laml the capital has changed hamdß .three time* -bhie year, each change being aceoiirnwoJßd !bjr. executionß metd $£lbge,