GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION]

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1904, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION]

NEW PLYMOUTH, 20th June. In the Supremo Court to-cluy George Thomas Hutton mid Henry Avencll, on tJicir thud trial, wore found guilty on a charge of rnpo committed at Hiiweni in Match lust, and sentenced to tbict- ycuttt' hard labour each. Mr. Justice Kdwurds in passing sentence remarked that ho hud taken the character of the woman into consideration in iw-;essing the period of imprisonment. Had the awMiuit been committed on another woman the- accused would hnvo gono into gaol young men nnd emerged middle-uged. WANGAXUI, 20th June. Thi.s week's Uuzelte contains the decision of Ihe Oovorninont CumnuHxiouers with legnrd to the Sh.ike*pcuio's C'lifFrond enquiry. Tlui -Mulaoiiguonga Koud Uouid, him jurisdiction over th© district, claimed that tin- other local bodies thould nssint in putting Ihe cliff and rond (on which n vt«iy big .slip occurred some time ugo) in repair. The woik is intimated io cost £2615, and of this sum the Borough Council is to puy £300, Knukatca Rond Board JD2SO. Mungawhero Road Bouul £200, and Mniaungaouga Roud Hoard the balance. ♦The winter school for teachers employed in the Wanganui Education District opened here (o-rt.iy. About two hundred leucheru A\erc present. CniUSTCHURCH, 20th June. A firo to-night completely gutted Mitchell'.') furniture warehouse. Insurance, £1000 on the building, rttock, and machinciy in the New Zealand Office. DUNEDIN. 20lh June. In I lu> divorce ctae of Miller v. Miller nnd Bennett, iv huslmnu'N petition, the Chief JuMice gi anted a rule nisi. The parties weie m.uiicd at Rukaiu in Mi\rch, 1890. The third trial of M'Kenzie, for alleged sheep-Mealing at Clinton, has been put oIT till the noxl criminal sittings. An old-age pensioner and an inmntc of the Benevolent Institution >\eh? Ihe dofendanls in two out of tlucu cum)* of drunkenness to-day. Mr. R. Hay, C.R., reported' to the Dock Trust Ilmt the borings on the pioposed site of the new dock were now completed, and were genoiully wilisfactory. A considerable quantity of mntciial can be removed by dredging before the. copper dam 'is built. At tho animal meeting of tho Otago Bible .Society It was reported that £895 had been inised by collections for IlrttMi and Foreign Bible Societies. The income of the Olngo Soritty for the year was £522. Awm of £224 ' hod been sent to tho British and Foreign Bible Society, and £180 to the Nation Society. At a meeting of tho Temperance Refoim Council, it was derided to remit to the Executive of tho AHianco tho question of the advifcublenoMJ of arranging with Canon Boyce, Pi evident of the Now South Wales 'Temperance Alliance, to v i v i | the colony. It was fmther resolved --"That in the opinion of the meeting, it is advisable for tho Alliance to make aruingements for a visit by Father Hnyc.<>." IXVKKC'.UmiLL. 20th June. The Awiuua Licensing Committee hns lenowcd Iho license of (he Woodlands Hotel on condition that Dempster, the licensee finds ;i tultublc substitute in three month*.

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