NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 234, 6 September 1912, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

LAST NIGHT’S NEWS. 1 At the Hamilton Supreme Court | .yesterday, Victor Cornelius Nareb.x’, i for theft of moneys, was acquitted, ; the jury adding a rider that the ae- I cased left the court without a stain ’ on his character. ■ Kenneth Moore, | charged with the manslaughter of a ! Maori in a prize light, was found not. 1 guilty and discharged. At the Christchurch Supreme I Court yesterday, Joshua M’cbley, j convicted of committing an unnatnr-j al offence, was sentenced to ten ; years’ imprisonment.. At the Auckland Police Court. ■ Thomas Coglan. milk vendor, was ; fined £5 and costs for selling milk; containing more water than is per-1 mitted under the Sale of Foods and; Drugs Act. Samuel McFetridge and George Hannan, on similar charges, i were fined £!<) and 17 6 costs and £5 and 17 6 costs rcapeecivcly. Mr. G. M’. .Mclntosh, president <j; the Otago Aciritrnal isation Society, speaking to a ’‘Daily Times’’ reporter, said his society had sent a ranger to the Owaka district to invesri-i gate the assertions made by Mr. Mai-1 colm, ALP., tjiat the fruit gardens; and farms <>f settlers were suffering \ from the depredations of opossums. I The rangers report went to show that; a big majority of the settlers con-, sider that the opossum was not? harm-; ful. “There is no doubt,” said Air. I Mclntosh, ‘‘that the renmval of the I protection will shortly result in the j extermination of the little marsu-j pial.” ! At Dam-.f virke yesterday. Roland ; Manning and a native named ’A i Duncan were charged with failing tut take the oath of allegiance tinder the ; Defence Act. Defendams consented I to take the oath, and the eases were j withdrawn.. On a charge of failing 1 to attend parades Manning was con- j victed and ordered to pay costs i £3 6 6.