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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 5 June 1897, Page 3

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(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Friday. A. settler named Roderick MoeKenzle, nf Okathau, and a Maori bnsbman named Hohepa, ot Hoklanga, were killed la the bash by a lulling tree. Later, At the Polios Court the Justices passed exemplary sentences owing to Inoroaaed lurrlklnlsm, A youth named Walter Lacey was fined 409 or 11 days' gaol for stone- throwing, In Albert-street, at the Salvation Army barracks. For assaulting Chief- Detective Qraoe the came prisoner was fined £5 or a month's bard labor. David Stewart was similarly sentenced for asnaultiug Constable Johnson and £3 or 14 daya for assaulting n citizen. At tbe Supreme Court, W. A. Kattray, for reoelvlac stolon property, was sentenced to 12 months; W. Knox, for breaking and entering, to two years ; and Frank Ryder, for uttering glided sixpences as half'sovereignn, to six months. HawerA, Friday. The management oommlttee of the Taranakl Kagby Union hns resolved to write to tbe New Zaaland Union, strongly disapproving the action of appointing Mr Coutts to tbe selection cammictee of the New Zealand team in preference to the Taranaki nominee, and to write to the r.ther Union b explaining the Taranakl Union's position in the matter. The obalrman admitted that Taranakl was over-represented In the team to tour Australia. New Plymouth, Friday. The licensing committee to-day granted all renewals, tbe polioe report being favorable. Ad application for an extension to 11 0'olock at Rahotu was refused. Masterton, Friday. The licensing oommlttee to-day refused (wo applications for new lioensea for hotels at Maurleevllle. All other applications for renewals were granted, with an exten- ! Blon to 11 o'olook here and at Eketahuna, Wellington, Friday. Mrs Belli has Bent a further report to Dr. Maogregor, In which she states that the reply of the Benevolent Trustees is plausible and misleading, but that she does not feel called on to go into farther particulars at present. She personally vleited 158 cbbbi, and contends that her orlbiotama were for the public benefit, and not BCtuated by any spirit of antagonism to the trnsteeß, The captain of the lunlc wbb tOday fined £1 and 30s costs for permitting a dog to be laqded without undergoing quarantine. The annual meeting of the licensing oommlttee granted all hotel licenses for 11 p.m., but refußßd an application for a New Zealand wine license. Later. Owing to the rise In the price of butter tbe Crown Dairy Faotory Company, at Pahlatua, has announced to milk sup pliers that It wishes them to participate In Its profits, and haß therefore raised the price of " batter fat " Id per lb over tbe oontraet price. Tola 1b at the rate of nearly 4J4 per gallon, the highest ever paid In the district. Christchukch, Friday, At a well attnuded meeting to protest against the Inefficient ndmlnistratlon of the liquor laws la the King Country tonight the following resolution was passed : — " That this meeting teams with Borrow of the terrible evils lr flic ted on the natives of tbe King Country by the illicit sale of liquor, and eaters a protest ogftiopi) the apathetic administration by the Government of the law prohibiting the sale of lntoxlcp.nts In the conntry referred to, and demands thud' the Minister for Defence take such steps immediately us eh nil remove this reproach from the colony." I At the ballot for sections at Horaley Downs Homeitend to-day there were 764 applications for 25 sections. Nearly all the sections were drawn by young men with sufficient capital to work them. Only one lady out of a dozen drew a prize. DUNEDIN, Frldny. The application by the Colonial Bank liquidators for the publlo examination of the Hon. George M'Lean waa unopposed and tbe examination fixed for June 30th. The Jndge granted Mr M'Lean leavo to I go tbrongh tbe Colonial Bank's books preparatory to hi 3 examination, and the liquidators undertook to supply him with the heads on wbloh his examination would be conducted, Later. At a publio meeting to-night it was decided to raise fands for establishing a children's ward to be called the " Vlotorla Ward," in oommemoratlon of the reoord reign movement, About £?,2Q has been already subs'oribed, '