GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8144, 16 December 1904, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PBBSB — ISOOUXipX.] WODVILLE, December 15. A meeting of shareholders in the North Island Bacon Company to-day decided to increase the capital to £26,000, but a proposal to shift the works to Palmerston North . will be submitted to a poll oi shareholders to be held in Palmerston in January. WELLINGTON, December 16. Four lads, Richard Lane, aged 16, Joseph Norman, 17, Harry Murphy, 16, and Walter Baker, 16, were Drought up for sentence to-day before the Chief Justice on charges of breaking and entering at Feilding. As a favorable . report was forthcoming about Murphy he was admitted to probation. Two of the other boys had been punished before for theft, and are now awaiting trial for anon. .His Honor said he did not know what to do with the lads, but on receiving an assurance that they would be kept apart in prison he passed. the nominal sentence of three months' imprisonment.