TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue IV, 3 December 1909, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

PJSB. PBBBS ASSOCIATION. CAPTAIN KNYVETT'S CASE. Auckland, Deec..ber 2. A preliminary inquiry was held tonight by the Officer Commanding the District (Lieutenant-Colonel Wolte) into the case of Captain Knyvett. It is understood that it was decided the case should be referred to a court ol inquiry (court martial), the officer commanding considering. the case too serious for nim to deal with. In the meantime Captain Knyvett will remain xinder suspension. THE SLY-GROGGEtt. Dunedin, December 3. At the Police Court this morning, Mary Parker, on a charge of selling liquor without a license, was fined £50. The Magistrate said it was a very bad case. Ashburton, December 3. James Lorgelly, a hotelkeeper of Methven, in the Selwyn licensing district, was to-day fined £10 on a charge of soliciting an order for liauor on the Ashburton racecourse. The case arose out of a sly-grog selling case which was heard a fortnight ago, when Lorgelly gave evidence which led to his own conviction to-day. Wellington, December 3. Two anen were convicted td»day of sly grog-selling m the city. Alexander Lindsay, a first offender, was fined £10, or one month's imprisonment, and Alexander McLeod was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment without the option, as he had been previously convicted. A WELL-KNOWN NATIVE. Thames. December 3. Obituary— Heta Rewiti (David Stewart)), aged 40 years. He was a member of the Maori football team which toured uritain, and the owner of a considerable area of nativeland. He was well known in sporting circles, having owned several prominent racehorses.