LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 123, 23 November 1908, Page 7

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

SUDDEN DEATH. BLENHEIM, This Day. A man named Michael Higgins, son of a well known farmer of this district, dropped dead this morning, apparently from heart disease. ASHBURTON, This Day. Roger Keane, a single man, aged 57, a labourer, was found dead in a hut near Mount Somers this morning. Ho had been in indifferent health for some time, and has no (relations here, but is supposed to have a brother at Waihi. FIRES AT DARGAVILLE. INCENDIARISM. DARGAVILLE, This Day. On Saturday night a fire broke out in an apartment attached to the ladies' waiting room of the Dargaville railway station, the circumstances pointing clearly to incendiarism. Constable Thompson, who was early on the scene, secured a bundle of charred consignment notes saturated with kerosene. There is a strong suspicion here that the fire which occurred at Dargaville on Sunday, the 15th inst., and which destroyed a valuable block of buildings, may be due to the- same miscreants, to trace whom every effort h being made. The hope is generally expressed that a public enquiry v> ill be held and the cause of the outbreak be thoroughly sifted. A CAPTAIN FINED. DUNEDIN, This Day. Captain Waller, of the Wimmera, was convicted and ordered to pay costs, on a charge of carrying a seaman between Lyttelton and Dunedin without an agreement. SERIOUS OFFENCES. TWELVE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR A YOUTH. DUNEDIN, This Day. The criminal sitting of the Supreme Court opened this morning. Mr. Justice Williams, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said the cases were more numerous and of a more serious nature than usual. They included attempted murder, assault on a little girl, and a curious case of alleged ill-treatment of a young girl by her married sister. Percy Johnston, aged 18, pleaded guilty of a serious assault on a girl. The police gave him a bad character. The judge declined to order a flogging, as he was of opinion that a long sentence without flogging was preferable to a short sentence with flogging. It was better, too, for society that persons convicted of such crimes should be kept away for as long a period as possible. Prisoner was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment, with hard labour. SENTENCED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. AUCKLAND, This Day. .In. the Supreme Court James M'Arthur was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for the embezzlement 1 of £185 from the New Plymouth Sash and Door Company. THE GREY LYNN ALLEGED LIBEL CASE. TO BE SETTLED. . AUCKLAND, This Day. It was stated that the claim for £1000 for alleged libel, brought by 0. Nicholson, the defeated candidate for Grey Lynn, against O. Sexton, one of the Hon. G. Fowlds's committee, would be settled this afternoon. ' BREACH. OF LICENSING LAWS. GISBORNE, This Day. John .O'Grady, for supplying liquor to a prohibited person, pleaded guilty, and was fined £10 or two months' imprisonment — the heaviest penalty allowable. MORE IMMIGRANTS. DUNEDIN, This Day. The Papanui reached Port Chalmers this morning. She brings 148 immigrants, twenty-four of whom are domestics. The newcomers bring capital representing £4769.