GENERAL TELEGRAMS, [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS, [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

DUNEDIN, 11th April. At the Police Court to-iiay, on tlie application of the Crown Prosecutor, tho charge against Thomas A. Bolton of re- „ ceiving paint valued at £5, knowing it to be Btolen, was withdrawn. OAMARU, 11th April/ At the Magistrate's Court to-day Henry W. S. Patterson, a cadet in the Railway Department at Duntruon, pleaded UuiMy of stealing a letter containing chequfj amounting to £17 9s 3d, from the 10--ceiving box. He was reminded to tb.9 Supreme Court at Dunedin for sentence. TIMARU, 11th April. The cost of repairs to the borough water race, damaged by the flood, is estimated at £300. Tho damage was caused by slips on tho steep hill face. „ < NELSON, lltb April. < At a meeting of tho Harbour Board to-day, Mr. Leslie Reynolds, 0.X., nt- r tended, and his plans for diedge, helpers, eto., were gone into. It was agietyf : ( to proceed with the const i notion of a dredge, and tenders will be called in New - Zealand. GREYMOUTH, 11th ApriL / ; At the Borough Council' meeting tbo tender of. J. and J. Braddock, of o*loU , ham, England, was accepted for a gasholder with a steel tank of sixty thousand feet capabity. The rapid increase of gas ■ consumption necessitates cabling the acceptance. The pumps for the water scheme are to-be driven by gas engines/ .and the tender of Tivtigye has been accejpted for the engines and pumping plant. " ''"* V 4 f GISBORNE, 11th April. At the Supreme Court to-day lopa ts Whetu was found Guilty of perjury. Sentence was deferred. "Matebaere was found Guilty of common assault. The informant, a young man, had been bo badly injured that he had to remain in the hospital for a fortnight. The defence was that there had been a fair fight, tho injuries having been inflicted by somo other n t "Jve. Sentence was deferred. Mr. t'ohn Townley, "who has been Mayor o£ Gisborne for twelve yearß in., succession is likely to be re-elected unopposed. TE 4WAMUTU, 11th April. The balloting for 47 sections in tlio Kawhia Block was held this morning. Meßsrs Mueller, Taylor, Munro, and Thompson represented the Department. Over 150 applicants were present. The number of applicants was 1434, the greatest number for a single section^ being 176 for section 5, Block 6, Kawhia South.

The contract for the supply of drugs for. Mount View Lunatic Asylum' for th« ensuing year has been secured by Mr. G. W. Wilton. (For continuation of New* tee page 7.)