TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 289, 12 June 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] I Dunedin, June 11. i Iv the oase of John Hodson, mino manager, charged with failing to con- , tribute five shillings a week towards the support ot Elizabeth Hodson, his wife, defendant said he just got work at 12s per day after serving a third term of imprisonment for failing to obey a maintenance order for his wife's support. He would not give a shilling to support a woman who liad carried on as his wife had done, not even if it would mean the scaffold to-morrow. The Magistrate sentenced Hodson to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, the warrant to be withheld till the July pay day in order to give the accused the opportunity of paying off the arrears due. At the .inquest touching the death ot the infant child of G. P. Campbell, Dr. Evans gave, as the result of a post mortem, the opinion that death was due to suffocation, probably caused through the child sleeping in the same bed with the mother. The jury returned a verdict of death by suffocation, the evidence being insufficient to show how caused. The late Dr. Alexander, under his will, bequeathed £1250 to the Governor of St. Helena for the benefit of native born poor and the necossitcus inhabitants of the island. The legacy is given in recognition of the fact that St. Helena was his birthplace, and his family have been closely connected with it for a lengthy period Auckland, Jcne 11. Two young men Chas. George Frederick Pepper and Herbert Howlett, were charged with having received money knowing it to have been stolen from the steamship Narva. , Tha accused pleaded not guilty. It will be remembered that 1000 sovereigns were stolen from the boat, and that two men, Christie and Manning, tl ml officer and seaman respectively, were found guilty of having stolen the money and are now undergoing sentence. Pepper was charged with having received £230 of the money and Howlett £182. The jury, after 20 minutes' retirement, brought in a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoners were discharged. An inquest) was opened this afternoon on the body of Henry Elder, who was killed by a tramcar last night in Victoria street. After evidence of identification had been given by the dead man's brother, the inquest was adjourned until 10 o'clock next Tuesday. The state of the Police Court biulding led Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., to i r. ake remarks on the subject this Two women, who had been Having in a filthy condition in Durham had just been removed from ■< Court when his Worship renia'rk- " ed that they should get the place fumigated at least once a week. "I am informed," ho went on, "by a scientific man that this place simply swarms with all sorts of germs. 1 once asked a gentleman to make an experiment, but he said he was afraid of the results, which would probably drive everyone from coming near." At a meeting of tlio Harbour Board the Chairman (the Hon. E. Mitolielson) presiding ,the imiwrtant matter of considering the .adoption of the City Council's sugestions lospectine; the discharging of sewage matter at the proposed outlet near Okarhu Point was considered. Considerableobjection was shown, and on the motion of Mr Napier it was decided to refer it to arbitration. Mr Basley, in supporting Mr Napier's motion, snid due regard must be paid to future requirements. He thought that in 50 years the city would contain nearly 2,000,000, and would extend from the Tainaki Head to the Whau Canal. Napier, June 12. The inquest on Alice Caroline Simpson, a young married woman who died suddenly about three weeks ago, was resumed yesterday, when the report of the Colonial Analyst on the contents of her stomach was available. The Analyst found traces of a strong blistering irritant, but was too small to identify. He suggested it might be cantharidin. Further evidence failed to elicit any information as to how the poison could have been taken by the deceased, as she was partly an invalid, aiid there was 'nothing of a poisonous nature about th^-r-honser The jury found that death was due to inflammation accelerated by some irritant, but how ifr'was obtained there was no eeideiicc to show. " licensee of the Albion Hotel, was found guilty on nine informations of supplying liquor to boys apparently under the age of 16, and was fined £15. Two barmen were fined £10 and £7 respectively on similar charges. As the hotel was changing hands the license was not endorsed. Iv the course of a lecture last night on climate, Dr Kennedy, Government Meteorologist for the district, showed by tables and diagrams that Napier compares more than favourably with the world famed health resorts of the Old World, while in the colony it is second to none. He concluded that Napier's climate was one of its most valuable assets. Christchurch, June 12. An engine-driver named Douglas Young, while engaged last night with his engine running trucks down to the railway yards near Colombostreet, ran diagonally into three tnicks standing upon an adjacent siding. The engine just failed to clear the trucks, and Young jumped off the engine and was crushed between it and the stationary trucks. Young was badly crushed in the chest, and was dead when picked up. He was a married man with one child. Eketahuna, June 12. The Eketahuna Poultry Association's sixth annual Show' onened today under favourable conditions. Although the entries show a slight falling off on last year ,the exhibits are of a highvclass. Principal winners in leading classes were: — Plymouth Rocks, Jens Thomasen; Black Orpingtons, A. S. Guthrie; Buff Orpingtons, B. C. MeCormick; White Wyandottes, R. G. Vile, W. A. Boyes, Ohas. J. Hansard; Golden Wyandottes, Foster and Hickling, T. A. Boyes, Jas. Brown. Champion for Golden Wyandottes was allotted to a Golden cock exhibited by Foster and Hicking, of Pahiatua. Auckland, June 12. Benjamin Rowsell, a man about 40 years of age, committed suicide last night. He was a medical man, and held in high esteem by a large circle of friends, to whom his tragic death caused a great shock. He had been travelling in the South Island, more especially with a view to studying elephantiasis. Ho had been in Auckland for the past eighteen months, and was especially wellknown as secretary to the St. George's Rowing Club. The proprietor of the Commercial Hotel with % whom Dr. Rowsell had been staying, received a letter this morning stating that his body would be found either in St. Stephens' Cemetery, Parnell, or at ~ the Orakei, and asking the proprietor to communicate with the police. Dr. Rowsell's body was found in the Parnell cemetery. Blenheim, June 12. In the Supreme Court to-day John Moore, alias George Johnstone, was sentenced to twelve months' for the theft of money from lodgers at ' the Cotterill Hotel on May 10. Greymouth. June 12. News from the New Alpine Mine is very encouraging. Yesterday a telegram was received from the superintendent as follows; "Inolined winze opening out on coarse gold; more quarts making in face of level; cariying little fine gold." Wanganui, June 12. The Arbitration Court commenced its sittings here this morning, before Justice Sim and Messrs Brown and Slater. For » breach of the Coach Workers' Award Messrs Boyd and Brennan were fined £3 and costs. The N.Z. Express Co., for paying a driver insufficient overtime, were firfed £1 Oand costs, and the driver was fined £ land costs. Furser and Son, • for employing a cabinetmaker under the rate of wages without a permit, was fined £5 and costs, and the worker 10s and costs. . Evidence was called by employers and employees in the Letterpress Machinists' dispute. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 1.10 p.m. to-day: — Northerly strong winds to gale; glass fall; rain probably heavy,; rivers considerable fresh after 20 hours.