TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 4026, 31 August 1898, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(PHB PBRS3 ASSOCIATION.) ■Wellington, August 30. It was stated at the meeting of the Benevolent Trustees this afternoon that certain Chinamen in "Wellington make « living by collecting tea leaves at hotels and boarding houses, drying them, and selling them to the poor of the city. ■Mr A. D. Biley, Director of the Technical School, under the direction of the Wellington Education Board, returned from England by the s.s. Maori. In the course of an interview he said he had not been to the Old Country for 16 years, and he had been simply amazed at the progress made during that time in teohnical education. The whole of his stay at Home had been devoted to tbe2Btudy of the latest phases of that side of education in Great Britain, and in every place he had found the schools and teohnical universities simply orowded with all classes of students. Women formed no small portion of many of the olasses at these schools. He had brought back much knowledge, which must prove advantageous not only to Wellington, but to the whole colony. „.„. ■In the Supreme Court William Aldridge was found guilty of breaking into a jeweller's shop at Masterton and stealing a J6IOO worth of watches and jewellery, and was remanded for sentence. Henry Weaver, who was charged with stealing the raoehorse Osborne from the training stable at the Lower Hutt, was acquitted, but the jury added a rider that Weaver should be examined as to hiß Banity. August 31. Rainfall in Wellington during the present month was 5*76 inches as against 4 inches in August of last year. At a meeting held this evening, it was resolved to present Mr T. E.Taylor, M.H.R., with a testimonial, in recognition of his labours on the Police Commission and his other services. It is proposed that this testimonial shall take the form of a presentation and address, to be given him at a publio meeting to beheld in two of three weeks' time. The intention is to invite the co-opera-tion of all parts of the colony, and of all classes, regardless of party politics or temperance sympathies. The oase of the woman Sarah Jones, against whom a true bill was brought in on a charge of deserting her children, was again mentioned in the Supreme Court to-day. Mr Jellicoe said he intended when the case came on to move to quash the indictment. The Crown Prosecutor admitted it was very doubtful whether the Court had jurisdiction under the Criminal Code Act, and the Chief Justice expressed the opinion that the point ought to be reserved for the Court of Appeal. The case was allowed to stand over. Stephen Walsh and William Aldridge who were concerned in the Masterton jewellery robbery, were sentenced to four years' and three years' respectively. There were several previous convictions against them. Auckland, August 80. The case of alleged perjury against exOonstables Jackson, Moßae, Scott and Skinner, arising out of the Albion Hotel fracas case, was adjourned for eight days, and the accused were reeased on their own recognisances. August 31.

A young map named Henry Barrett Rose, 22 yea'ra of age, one of the prisoners in the Supreme Court yesterday, adopted insolent demeanour during the hearing of his case. After receiving ■entenoe'he intimated his intention and ability to do it on his head with very lurid language that caused sensation. He thus clung to the railing in front of the dock and was only removed with some difficulty by two warders. .Rose has already figured in enough cases to give him a reputation of the Jack Sheppard order. Beginning in 1894 with an odd case or two of larcency he went on breaking and entering and from thence to robbery under arms. Yesterday he received four years for burglary. Mr. A. Haughey advertise^ considerables redaction in the price of coal. Bankruptcy notice in another column. It's quite enough to make you weep, The things one buys, both bad and cheap ! But bear's a hint — if ever you would Get hold of a thing that's cheap and good, Just purohase Woods' Great Peppermint Cure