GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 50, 1 March 1905, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] AUCKLAND, 28th Fobruary. A telegram has been received by tho Education Board from tho Department, stating that the Minister hn» agreed to establish a Training College and Normal School nt Wellesloy-street School. At a sitting of the Arbitration Court, representative^ of tho Auckland Cabmen's Union intimated thnt tho dispute between masters arid mon, referred to the Court for hearing, had been withdrawn. GISBORNE, 28th February. The Boroagh Council to-night accepted an offer by the Australian Mutual Provident Society for ft water mipply loan, of £76,000 at 4| per cent., the ban to have thirty years' currency, with right to JJHiko repayment** during that period. DUNISDIN, 28th February. At the Police Conrt, in a charge against a person of being found on licensed premises during such titno as they were required to be dosod. tho defence wns that defendant (who m barman in another hotel) had been «ont for to visit an acquaintance who had been hurt. A fine of 20ti, with 7s coste, wha inflicted. John Willis, married, with threo child* ron, wafl to-day sentenced to six months' imprisonment lor uiing obscene langungo to a tramway conductor. ' # Tho Stipendiary Magistrate reserved decision in five cases of alleged sly grogselling, four boing Dunedin cases and one Port Clialmcr*. INVERCARGILL^ 28th February. At the Supreme Court, F. 11. Farr, aged twenty-three, wns sontonced to eighteen months' hard' labour for indecent assault. There nre previous convictions (one for highway roboery), but Mr. Justice Williams said ho would not allow them to weigh in tho present ca«e, having occurred yeans ago. A young Victorian, nnmed L. S. Habllton, shot himself outside tlio door of a friend's houJw, whero ho wn« staying. 110 is in a bad way in tho hospital, a bullet from a email pistol having passed through one of his lungs. Ho hnd been depressed, the cnuse being a conjectured growth on the brain. THAMES, 28th February. The Government pumping plant, taken over for threo months' experimental run by the Drainage Bonrd prior to permanent arrangements being effected, is running smoothly. The huge plant is in splendid condition, nnd is cnpnble of draining tho deep levels at tho Thames nt two thousand feet.