GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 31 May 1904, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[FRKBB A"SOCIiTION.I NAPIER, 30th May. A Chinese fruiterer named Wong Wah Sing was to-day fined £5 at the Magistrate's Coutt for selling liquor without a license. TIMARU, 30th May. At the inquest on the body of Walter Eli Prattley, the victim of the railway accident a.t tho High-strtet crossitig at Temuka on Saturday, th© evidence showed Prattley Was aWaro th© express was due, and that he should not cross, but he whipped up his three horses and took tho crossing. The horses had just got over as the express came a'.ong at 'the rate of thirty miles an hour and struck the vehicle. A verdict of Accidental Death wns returned. CARTERTON, This Day. The proposed drainage loan of £6000 was carried at the port yesterday by a majority of two to one, tile voting being 135 for and 65 against. AUCKLAND, This Day. Th© Divorce Court granted a decree nisi in the wise Frances Mary Littlejohn v. Ernest James Littlejohn, on the ground of adultery. The p«rties had resided in Pialinerston North, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, and Auckland. The New Zealand Drug Company's warehouse in Albert-street had a narrow escape from destruction by fire ut an early hour this morning. A constable discovered fire* in the packing-room at th© rear of Uio building. The brigade arrived promptly, and extinguished th© firo in a few minute*. Its spread to the rest of tho building was probably prevented by the connection door and tho window being sheathed with steel. The damage to tiie building is about £200, and drugs to about the «ame amount were destroyed. Tho building and contents were covered by insurance to th© extent of £28,000, mostly in local companies. WANGANUI, This Day. At tho Supreme Court civil sittings "this morning, in tho case Smithies v. Universal Supply Company, a claim- of £601 for wrongful seizure and 'detention of a sewing machine, judgment was given by consent for £10, value of th© machine, 10s interest, and nominal damages Is.