TELEGRAPHIC.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2903, 24 January 1911, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From Our Own Correspondent) Dunedin this day. At Helensville yesterday W. C. Laroche was fined £lO and costs for publishing an unregistered newspaper. George Moir, for brutally kicking a cat, was fined at Dunedin £3 and costs 7s. James Barrow, for assaulting one, Alfred Walker, in the Trades Hall, Dunedin, was fined 10s and costs £2 lis. • Dr Findlay arrives in Dunedin to day. Prince Leopold, cousin of King George V., was received by the Governor and Cabinet Ministers yesterday. Sir James Mills accompanies him on a three weeks tour of New Zealand. E J. Stark, city electrical engineer wanls his salary increased to £9OO per year for a five years engagement and requests an answer before February 1. The s.s. Aotea which struck a rocky bottom near Capetown on Sunday morning will probably be a total loss. The oversea Dominions are expected to follow Australias lead in prote»ting aoainst the ratification of the Declaration of London so far as articles relating to capture at sea and contraband are concerned. The South African cricketers will not visit New Zealand. New Zealand will not sent a contingent to the Coronation. Wellington's seventy first birthday was celebrated in glorious weather. At the races, yesterday Culprit won the Wellington Stakes, £550, and Lady Medallist the Wellington Handicap of 500 sovs. J. J. Mcßride's Obsono won the Metropolitan Handicap, carrying 7.9. At lnvercargill wool sales crossbreds dropped 3d a pound campared with January sales last year.