LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HAWERA, This Day.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 129, 27 November 1901, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HAWERA, This Day.

Frosts during the last two nights have done considerable damage to the potato crops. , There is beautiful weather to-day, for the Egmont Show, which promises to be a great success. DUNEDIN, This Day. Captain Richardeon, formerly in command of the steamer Waikare, has retired from the Union Company's service owing to ill-health. In the case of James Wood, who was in the Supreme Court this morning convicted of indecent assault, Mr. Justice Williams plainly indicated that the jury ought to have found the "prisoner guilty on the major counts of the indictment. He sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment and a, flogging. His Honour had just previously sentenced another man to six months' imprisonment for indecent assault. STRATFORD, This Day. The strike of railway men is dying out, • and work is proceeding. A man named James M'Guire was found dead in a sitting-room at the Stratford Hotel last night. The landlord went in at 12 o-'clof:k to turn out the lights, and found the man lying on the floor. He had presumably died in a fit. • TIMARU, This Day. Mr. T. R. Flatman, M.H.R. for Qeraldine, addressed his constituents at Temuka last night, and was given a vote of thanks. ~ j [OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MASTERTON, This Day. j Councillor Cockburn Hood was to-day < re-elected Chairman of the Mastetton Counter Council. PALMERSTUN V., This Day. Mr. G. S. Bridge, Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, returned ftfom Wellington yesterday with the plans of the proposed Commercial College. It is proposed to erect a building of six rooms in brick, at a cost of £2000. Mr. Hogben, Secretary of the Education Department, will visit the town shortly to obtain the necessary information.