GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1907, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

fr-KESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, This Day. The University Council discussed *a bursary scheme. The chairman (Sir Maurice O'Rorke) favoured the scheme. He thought tho council might co-operate with the department. Mr. Bauinc said members of Parliament whom he had consulted strongly denounced the £250 income limit, as a class distinction. The council deferred decision to obtain the opinion of the Professorial Board. Mr. ' Bourne, of Christchurch, was appointed temporary lecturer of classics. WOODVILLE, This Day. Mr. Louis J. Plank, second assistant in the Napier main school, was last night appointed headmaster of the Kumoroa school. The rain has ceased and the flood waters are subsiding. Judging from tho large number of stock which, came down the river some settlors are heavy losers. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. In the Divorce Court, a decree nisi was granted in tho case Taylor v. Taylor, the wifo's petition. HASTINGS, This Day. The weather is fine to-day but owing to tho state of the ground play in the polo tournament will not be commonced till two o'clock, when the matches Wellington A v. Hawkes' Bay A, and Wellington B. v Mangaheia will bo played. NELSON, This Day. At tho Supreme Court to-day John William Hawkes was convicted of assault on a youn girl, and spcommonded to mercy. He was admitted to probation for twelve months on the ground that he had a record of thirty-six years' blameless residenpe. Mr. Justice Denniston said the offence against women and children must be closely watched and soyerely dealt with. Much might bo said in- favour of accused, and the offence had been only slight, but the accused had not told the truth and in 3uch circumstances probation should not always be granted. He took into consideration the extrcmo age of accused, and that the offence was nothing more than an act of improprioty, and so granted probation, put only in exceptional cases would this bo done, tind His Honour desired this to b<? made as public as possible. Just after midnight a fire broke out in tho Port Hall, which was used for mission services and other purposes. Passcrs'-by applied a hose before tho brigado arrived and did good servico, and the brigade, with a good pressure of water, saved the building, though considerable damage was done. DARGAVILLE, This Day. Mr. David Aitken Wright, aged sixtyfive years, a retired railway official, was found dead on Sunday on his farm at Raupo with a gunshot wound in his head. ' At the inquest a vordict was returned that doath was due to » gun.shot accidentally self inflicted.