TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 277, 28 May 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[m mass _asoc_-_ioH.3 Hawera, May 28The reading problem is. growing stUl more acute as the winter approaches. Lately efforts have been S S devise some better system of communication than metalled roads. At first a monorail system by horse power was coMidered,but a meeting of local bodies interested has decided to procure estimates for an electric tramway linking Kaupohonui and Hawera, 13 miles, along the Main South road. A rough estimate for such an installation is £30,000. __ ' Dunedin, May 28 Isaac Hurring, convicted in the Supreme Court yesterday for common assault in the Romahapa shooting case, was to-day sentenced to six m ° nth8 ' Auckland, May 28. At the Supreme Court a middleaged man, Eveland Taylor, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for indecent assault on a child aged seven. The Grand Jury returned no bill on the charge of manslaughter against Charlotte Evans, in connection with the death of a boarded-out infant, and accused was discharged. Eketahuna, May 28. A gale has been experienced for the last two days. On Sunday morning there waa a light faU of snow, and yesterday cold driving ram and hail, and another fall of snow covered the hills, hut melted immediately on the low-lying country. It is still bitterly cold, and there are indications of Wanganui, May # 28. The weather continue* wintry, with a fierce sou'-westerly gale and furious hail squalls. Snow has fallen on the higher levels in the dis- " he Supreme Court oponed to-day before Mr Justice Cooper, who, m his charge to the Grand Jury,^ said he was |ad to say that the calendar was notlarge. Only eight charges against six persons-one being of indecently assaulting a child. m A Shakse* cattle stealSng against Jam« Floyd is now proceeding. WeUington, May i». The Acting-Premier, the Hon. Hall-Jones, continues unwell, nis condition ten-ay not being as satisfactory as could be desired.