GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 49, 28 February 1905, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[mESs association.! OAM A RU, This Day. Mr. J. H. Holmes has been elected 'Chairman of tho llaibour 13o«rd for the tenth succewiive year. WANUAXUI, This Day. At the Magistrate's Couit to-day an old man named Hurley pleaded guilty to making fulhe Mntemeiits about tlie value of properly held by him when applying for an oldtugc pension. The Magistrate .said he was unwilling to send Hu> ofd man to gaol, and convicted and discharged him, pointing oitt that the defendant had rendered hinihelf linb!o to six months' imprisonment. HASTINGS, This Day. William Pepper, who drank caustic .villa v month ago in mistake for herb beer, died last night. MASTKRTON, This Day. At tho Stipendiary Magistrate's Court to-day 11. T. flurndell wa.s lined 40s, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, on a charge of assaulting Ci. If. Cullen. Evidence was given that the accused threw stones on Cullen's house and rapped al the door about midnight. When remonstrated with he committed the assault.

Mi. W.ilter Nathan, of tho Him of Mrs M.*. W. M. Biinnatync nnd Co., who, with Mrs. Nathan and the thiee Mi-vses Nathan, Ikis been on a nine mouths' tup to the Old Countiy, returned to the colony by the Athenic tliiw morning. Mc<(eiit Ilarccurl nnd Co. will hold nn uiirrK-ni'd culo of lioiusclioUl fiiniiliiic at thnir rooms, 48, Lamblon-iniiiy, on I'Vulay, the 3id prox , ul 2 iO p in An ndvnrtiacincnt npjienu elsewlieio concpinmK Hm giHiid di«p|.iy of milliuciy al L'ent'i'K, Vivian-Htiect Holli window* nnd fhowiooiiM «io in])|ptf with Intcit modelii Mpswii Abrahiiui uml Williami announcu particulir« of a itook inlo to bo hold At Fkhautanui to-morrow »t 1 o'olock.