TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7843, 21 May 1904, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Per Press Association.-' ! . DANNEVIRKE, May 21. Herbert Grainger, a "settler, of Kiritaki, convicted at the SMCour' % yesterday, of ill-treating a fcor namea Willie Frost, from a Nelson home, who was in his char, o, was fined £20 or, in default, two months' imprisonment.

PAHIATUA, May 21 case of Fisk v. Farrelly and Gregory, a claim for £490 for- alleged damage to the plaintiff's land through defendants damaging a dam' was concluded in the District Court last_ night, after occupying the attention of "the Court for the ' days Ihe jury returned a verdict for the defendants, which carries costs. m , ~.' , Gisb-K-e. May 21. Ihe Gisborne High School Governors have under consideration a scheme by which selected pupils of Ihe scho.l would be assisted for several years through a university course; also to estabhsh five country schoVrshios at the J High School. A

Waieoa, May 21. , At the S.M. Court, before Mr Barton, m the case of the Polise v. J. Somerville! a doctor, for being on licensed premises during the currency of. a prohibiten order, the solicitor who appeared for ihe accused stated that on the occasion m question a traveller, a lady, became seriously ill and there being no other doctor in town at the time his client had no option. His Worship dismissed the inrormation under seclion 87 of the Justices of the Peace Act, which enables mm to do so even when a case has been proved.

' Dunedin, May 21. Harold Hamilton was before the Police Court this morning on a charge ot breaking into the warehouse of Bin'g, Harris and Co., and stealing jewellery to the value of £209. On the application ot the pohee.a remand was granted till Ihursday, when the Magistrate sits. WANGANUi.May 21. Two Jads, about 12 years of age, pleaded guilty at the Court to stealing a gold watcli^ and chain from a footballer's clothes, at the recreation ground. The Magistrate, Mr Stanford, ordered them to be whipped— to be given six strokes of a birch rod.

New Plymouth, May 21. Lloyds, underwriters, London, lose about £4000 under their open policy on the butter destroyed m the Mcturoa freezing works.