GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 48, 27 February 1905, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

IIII.CBH ASSOCIATION. I ' MASTL'KTON, 24th l-Vbiuaiy. At the Mantel ton .District Court, llonry M'Stea ««« found RUilty on i> clmrge of criminal asenult on n gitl four mid a half yea is of n.%0 on the Tauheionikau nicecourse, and wutcneutl to eighteen months' imprisonment. lleibcrt Willinm Pownall, charged undci the Uankiuptcy Act with not having kept proper accounts in connection with litH hotclkeeping business, was acquitted. OKKVMOUTH, 24ih Ke!>runry. Tlio youii|{ niun J)onntdt<on, from Fort Chalmers, who was knocked over by a inilwny truck, died it t the Ilonpitul this afternoon. Ho win n^ctl thirty-six yeais. Tlio body of the minting num Miluhcll wns found in thu nvor yesterday. Tlw jury rot urned a vcidict of Found Drow ned. INVKKCAIUJIUi, 24th IVbruaryThe lion. J. ltigg, M.J..C, adilretsetl a meeting of about lifty persons hero tonight in advocacy of the Political Labour League A branch was formed. OISnOKNK, 24th February. At tho nniin.il meeting of the Giiborno fins Company to-night, it was leported tlint the consumption of gas had increased by 17-j per cent over that of last year, and 31 per cent, over that of 1902. Considerable additions had been mado to the plant everything bcintf now in thorough order. Tho usual dividend of Is por share was pHRHed, and tho reserve increasod to £5000. NAPIER, 24th February. Tho Flawkes Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society has decided to alter the date of its autumn show from April 19th to April 12th, owing to tho former date being in Enstor week.