TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 801, 11 February 1909, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

-•■ 1 [pee press association.] ! PROBATION WANTED. I Wellington, February 10. E. J. Searl (one time proprietor of 1 the Hotel Cecil), who had been found guilty of perjury, came up for sentence to-day. Counsel made a strong plea for probation, and Mr Justice Cooper remanded the case until tomorrow, in order to consider the Probation Officer's report. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IN EAttNEST. Christohurchj February 10. The importance of being fined by a judge of the- Supreme Court no longer can be achieved by small or great employer or employee who commite a breach of an Arbitration Court award, for the amended Act provides that breaches shall come before a Magistrate instead of going to the Arbitration Court. This morning, at the Magistrate's Court, the new Act first ' came into operation. Mr Bishop, S.M., sat to hear a number of charges brought by the Inspector of Awards. The procedure was rather peculiar, oases taking the form of a quash-civil claim by ibhe Inspector of Awards for the recovery of the penalty. The Magistrate himself expressed his inability to define the class of procedure, but said there was no mistake about the jurisdiction of the magistrate to impose a substantial fine. THE PRICE OF SACKS. Timaru, February 10. At a representative meeting of South Canterbury grain buyers, it was decided that the price to be paid for farmers' sacks this season be ssd each, irrespective of size. HIGH DAY OF PICKPOCKETS. . Wanganui, February 11. A gang of clever pickpockets and thieves operated very freely at the Hawera races yesterday, and many purses were extracted from the pockets of the unwa— women being particular victims. The same gang is believed to have visited other race meetings. A DEAR GIRL J Auckland, February 11. A Maora named Wharematanga, tiaarged with abducting a native gidl under sixteen years of age, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. ' "NO WRECKAGE ANYWHERE." ™ _ Wellington, February 11. lhe Tutanekao. returned to Wellington; this moaning from an unsuccessful search for the Rio Log©. She zig-zagged to the Chathams and back and saw no wreckage anywhere