NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 38, 10 June 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL ITEMS

Auckland, June 9. At the Police Court George X. Powley was charged with having on the 9th May assaulted W.-J. Geddis with a stick. Mr Cotter who appeared for defendant, pleaded guilty, but under very provoking circumstances. The assault arose out of a paragraph in the Observer. Mr Northcroft, S.M., in giving judgment, said if he held that an article like that afforded a man a right to assault another man. the precedent would be a very dangerous one. He would fine defendant £■'> and L'o lis costs. Mr C. H. Mathieson, foreman of the telephone workmen, met with an accident at Messrs Arch. Clark and Sons' shirt factory this morning, resulted in his death. Deceased and other workmen were engaged on the roof putting a telephone wire into the factory. He •was on a ladder on the roof when the ladder slipped down to the gutter, and Mr Mathieson fell a distance of 32 feet striking the kerbstone. He had his arms broken and one leg and his sknll fractured. He was taken to the hospital, but died soon afterwards. Deceased was a Dane. He had been 20 years in the service. W ELi>tx«TON', -June 9. The drapery shop of Charles Dawers, Greytown North, was destroyed by tire this morning. The stock was insured for £IBOO in the South British ; building and fittings £l5O in the New Zealand. The stock was valued at £I9OO : building £3OO. Mr C. A. Deacon, the well-known shipping agent, had a fainting fit at the railway wharf this morning. He fell into the harbor, and had a narrow escape from drowning. Fully 70 delegates are expected to attend the Counties Conference, which opens here on the 19th instant. CiißisTcnrr.cH, June 9. It is estimated that by the terms of the late James Mack's will the lending department of the public library will receive an income of £GOO per annum till the death of testator's widow, and over £IOOO a year afterwards. The Board of Education to-day decided to take steps to establish classes at which teachers and others may attend for manual and technical instruction at the Normal School. It was also decided to hold at the same school, as soon after January Ist as possible, an exhibition of articles made in the various schools of the district and give certificates of merit to of schools where proficiency £in manual instruction is shown. Timaru, June 9. At the inquest on the body of Alice Tavener, found in the harbor yesterday, a verdict of found drowned was returned. _ Dcnet'ln, June 9. The Prohibition League has resolved that in consequenee of Mr Pinkerton, M.11.K.. having repudiated the principles of the league they can no f longer support him. It decided to stronglv urge members of Parliament to resist any attempt to alter the provision for taking a '• no license " poll on the day of the general election, being assured that this is the only effective mode of obtaining a full ex- . pression of opinion.