INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] ■ WELLINGTON, March 16. A young monied man, Walter Jennings, employed as a letter-carrier in tho Postal Department, lias been committed for trial on a charge of stealing £2 from a postal packet handed to him to deliver. WANGANUI, March 16. A local farmer was fined £5 and costs hy Mr Stanford, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning for failing to clear his land of noxious weeds. OAMARU, March 16. At the Magistrate’s Court' this morning, before Major Keddell, S.M., James M'Neij was sentenced to twelve months for gross indecency in the principal street of the town. Accused had been sentenced four times previously on similar charges art Mosgiel, Temuka, and Christchurch. The Magistrate said that this was the worst case In his experience, and he doubted if he was doing hla duty in dealing summarily with it. Flogging was the only thing for such a beast. Henry Taylor, with fourteen previous convictions, was sentenced to four weeks’ hard labor for drunkenness and soliciting money. In connection, with the case of the man Brett, recently burned to death at Maheno while intoxicated, Edmond O’Donnell, licensee of the Maheno Hotel, was prosecuted for serving drink to Brett while intoxicated and permitting drunkenness on his premises. At the inquest evidence was given to the effect that the wife of the licensee had served drinks to the deceased while he was intoxicated, also two bottles of beer, and that he had to be assisted home, where he was shortly afterwards burnt to death in his cottage. When the case was called this morning the police applied for an adjournment, on the ground of the mysterious disappearance of the principal witness for the prosecution. An adjournment was granted till the 28th inst.