TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 269, 18 May 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[FKB PBKBS ASSOCIATION-] Auckland, May 17. As Mrs Henwood, in company witn her nephew, Mr Schwartz, was waiting in a buggy outside Messrs Andrfw and Lion's *tore •* W" 11 ? yesterday, the horse took fright , at a passing motor car and bolted down Fairburn street. The two occupants held on to the reins. When taming the corner the buggy capsizedTthrowing them out. Mrs Henderson was severely shaken, and received cuts about the race, and was taken into a neighbour's house and attended to by Dr. Bewes. She was unable to proceed to her home last night. Mr Schwartz escaped with a shaking. The buggy was smashed but the horse was nothurt much. Mr Dyer, S.M., fined James Johnston 10s and costs for unlawfully engaging a seaman contrary to section 38 of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1903. A small penalty was imposed as the case was brought chiefly as a warning against crimping, and in view of the uncertainty as to the meaning of the clause in question, which the Magistrate regarded as somewhat involved and ambiguous, j Wellington, May 17. The Valuer-General gives a flat contradiction to the charge made by j Captain Bell at the Farmers' Union Conference in Auckland as to alterations of a valuer's figures after they were sent to the Valuation Department in Wellington. The ValuerGeneral says that a valuer is an expert and the Department considers he is the best judge as to the value of land in the district. The Farmers' Union is to be asked to furnish the Valuation Department with fuller information regarding Captain Bell's charge. At the Supreme Court to-day Harold Burndge, aged 19, was found guilty of indecent assault near Greytown, the jury strongly recommending him to mercy. Prisoner was remanded till Monday. Richard Joseph Hicks and Willian Frederick Henderson were found not guilty on a charge attempting to procure a miscarriage. Archibald John McNeill, alias MacDougall, was to-day sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the Police Court for obtaining goods by false pretences, and was remanded to be dealt with as an habitual criminal. Nelson. May 18. The City Council, last night, after considerable debate, refused to grant the City Surveyor an enquiry into the adminiseration of his department, and, on the motion of the Mayor, by 6 to 4, carried a resolution dispensing' with the services of tiie City Sutt&ror, on the ground of the need of and economy, and granting- him three months' leave on fuU liay, leave to start this^ morning. Tnis action is the outcome of persistent charges of maladministration made by the Mayor. There is a gtod deal of public sympathy with the City Surveyor. " -, Hokitika, May 17. A poll of ratepayers in the borough, taken to-day to' decide whether Hokitika be declared, a fire district under the Fire Brigades Act, 1906, resulted in 147 being oast in favour and 13 against it. Timaru, May 17. 'What was described as the first case of the kind in the colony was heard at the Court here this morning when a local hardware merchant was fined 5s for having sold an air gun to a boy under 16 years of age. • Defendant asked the Bench what kind of guns should be sold to boys under 16; could he sell popguns? For answer the Bench referred defendant to the Act passed last year touching this matter. Dunedin. May 17. In the case of Ralph Heywood, charged with leaving his motor car without reasonable excuse, Mr Hanlon contended that the by-law was a bad by-law and the wording should have been "for leaving a car or vehicle in a street un-attended,"* not for leaving the same. Mr Widdowson, S.M,, said the objection seemed to be a valid one, but he was disinclined to deal with the case in an off-hand manner, and would give judgment on Tuesday. Blenheim. May 18. Mr Matheson, Farmers' Union representative, has been conducting a campaign in Marlborough against the Land Bill. He spoke at Blenheim last night. At five meetings, so far, resolutions were almost unanimously carried in favor of the optional tenure. The meetings were poorly attended. , ■ , , No word has yet been received re the missing man Preston. The polioe suggest their failure to find a trace of the bicycle or gun indicates that the man has left the place with the • intention of concealing His departure. Greymouth, May 18. In the New Zealand Duck-egg-lay-ing Competition, so far, the Dirds have done little business in egg laying. The Manager reports that aU the birds are in good health. The season is yet early, an 4it was not expected that any gbod returns would be forthcoming till June. The returns to the 18th May are as fplBuff Orpington, 17; pen 15, Mmno Scott and Wareham, Indian Runners, 8; pen 20, Butler, Mrs Osmund, Indian Runners, 3; G. Woodward, Indian Runners. 3. Ttoal 31.