GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 24 November 1904, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

• (tress association.] INVERCARGILL, This Day. Mrs. Thornton, -nho was shot in three placfes by a young man named Stuart, •wlio afterwards committed suicide, died in the hospital, where she had been under treatment for five weeks. WHANGAREI, This Day. John Plplongeau, nightwatchman at Whangarei, has been remanded on a charge of threatening to kill with a loaded revolver George Snook, a retired aged settler, at 2 o'clock this morning. The accused was allowed out on bail. NELSON, 23rd November. The rifle champion, Sergeant Ching, and Colour-Sergeant Irvine, who were individually welcomed on their return from the Bisley meeting, were to-night given a public reception and congratulated. The" Mayors of Nelson and Richmond, Colonel Wolfe, and Major Harknesa welcomed the riflemen. Sir Robert Stout also spoke. Ching and Irvine were each presented with a rifle. ASHBURTON, 23rd November. The Ashburton County Council has decided to abolish the present system of rating for water-race districts separately, and to include water rates in the general rates. OAMARU, 23rd November. Mr. Duncan Sutherland was to-day elected for the twenty-sixth consecutive time as Chairman of the Waitaki County Council. Mr. Sutherland completed his silver chairmanship of the Council to-day. DUNEDIN, 23rd November. Messrs. Henry ii. Burton, Evens G. Evans, G. G. Howes, and Alexander Porter, divinity students, had their sermons, lectures, and homilies examined by,, the Presbytery to-day, and the trials were sustained' with high commendation. They were formally licensed at a large gathering at First Church to-night, addresses being given by the Rev. Dr. Nisbet and Rev. J. Chisholm, Moderator. At the Otago Wesleyan Synod meeting the Rev. Henry Ramsbottom was unanimously passed in Iris third year. It was resolved to start a new mission at Winton, comprising Winton, Hillend, Oreti Plains, Heddon Bush, Otipiri, Dipton, and Lunudeu. The Rev. C. H. Laws was granted permission to visit England in 1906, a piobalioner to be sent as supply. The Rev. Josiah Ward was elected to re* present the district at the Wellington conference, the Rev. A. Mitchell being substitute representative. DUNEDIN, This Day. The City Council last night decided to prosecute the Waipori Fulls scheme for electrical energy and .spend £2150 on the Lee stream, and then discontinue operations thereon. The proposition to employ Mr. Stark as electrical engineer in charge of Waipori was defeated on the casting vote of the Mayor. CHRISTCHURCH, 23rd November. At the Supreme Court, in the case of Bradbury v. M'Chitchie, a claim for £2500 damages for injuries received through one of defendant's carts colliding with a tramcar, the jury assessed the damages at £1000. In divorce a decree nisi was granted in the cases Greenwood v. Greenwood, a wife's petition on the ground of deseition, and Cusack v. Cusack, a husband's petition, on the ground of misconduct. For some time past an agitation has been in progress with a view to ousting lady candidates from scats on the Charitable Aid Board, but at a meeting of delegates to-night the tlhee lady members previously sitting — Mesdames Bloch, Wells, and Henderson — were again returned. An attempt was made to return two lady members to the Hospital Board, but this was unsuccessful. AUCKLAND, 23rd November. William Webster, of Hokianga, who arrived from Glasgow about 1839, and after residing in Wellington for some time- settled in Hokianga district, is dead. About forty years ago Mr. Webster walked from Auckland to Wellington. He was probably the first man to go overland. He was present at the last reunion of old colonists in Auckland. Owing to indisposition Paderewski has cancelled the recital he was to have given to-monow. His illness, however, is not serious. ' The Auckland Master Butchers' Association has decided to raise the retail price of meat as from Ist December. The reason given is the short supply and high price of stock. The case concerning the will of the late Hannah Field was further heard by Judge Johnston in the Magistrate's Court buildings to-day. Mr. D. M. Findlay, on behalf of the executor, is applying for probate, and Mr. Wilford, on behalf of two natives, is attacking the will on the following grounds: — (a) That 'ne execution was not according to statutory requirements, and (b) that undue influence was brought to bear on the testatrix. A claim is also being made by natives claiming to bo successors under the Native Land Courts Act, 1894. Evidence has been taken at length as to the execution of the will. Mr. Hadfield is appearing for one Stuart (a legatee), Mr. Weston for Mrs. Udy., Mr. Tripp for Mr. H. Field, and Mr. Treadwell for the children of Mrs. W. H. Field. Amongst the persons brought up for sentence in Auckland last Saturday by Mr. Justice Edwards was Sydney Gardner, who had pleaded guilty to a double charge of escaping from the Waiotapu prison camp and bxeaking into a dwelling and stealing therefrom. The circumstances of his case were that he had been transferred to the Waiotapu prison camp for his health's sake, and had one night esoaped from custody. He was a week at liberty, and working his waySdown to Tarawera he broke into a store and .stole therefrom certain things. He was subsequently captured and confessed his crimes. When asked if he had anything to say, prisoner stated he ran away from Waiotapu because his health was getting worse. He had been four days without food, and when he got to the store he^ took some food and an old dungaree coat. His Honour said he could not allow it to be supposed that an escnped prisoner might break into a dwelling by night and steal whatever he might fancy, and imposed a sentence of six months on the prisoner for the first offence, and twelve months for the- second, each in addition to his creeent term.