BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 5

BREVITIES

Henry William S. Patton pleaded guilty at the Auckland Police Court yesterday to breaking and entering a boarding-house and stealing £555 in notes and gold, £SO worth of jewellery, the property of boarders. He was committed for sentence.

In response to a deputation, tire Mayor of Wellington has called a public meeting to consider making arrangements for a public reception to Sir Joseph Ward on his return to Wellington. Five telegraph poles collapsed in Victoria street, Wellington, last night, near the Mercer street intersection, causing considerable alann in the neighborhood. The poles were subject to a heavy strain, heiire cumbered with five telephone cables, each weighing aEout six tons, besides'a large number of single wires.

The second meeting in connection with the Methodist Young Men’s forward move ; - ment was held in Cargill road Church last evening. The choir, under the conductcr’sbiip of Mr Nimmo, rendered two anthems, and Messrs A. Cook and S. Brown solos. Tire Rev. H: L. Blamires, organising secretary of the movement, was present, and delivered an addrere on the aims and objects of the movement. Angus Hart, a ralbbtt-fenco beeper on the Balmoral Estate, between the Humniri and Culvordcn (Canterbury), is reported to be missing. It is supposed he is' either hammed with the snow or that- he has mot Iris dearth from exposure. George Nottingham and Waiter Lander appeared at the Rangiora Court yesterday on a charge of having, committed there recent burglaries in that town, and were remanded till next week, • *

The Jsotcli'Sir Henry, wrecked near the East Cape/this week, is the fifth of the New- Zealand coasting schooners' that has been lost with all hands this winter. They are tire Ronga, Oban, Haeremai, Aotey and Sir Henry.