TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8544, 26 March 1908, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Per Fress Association. HAWERA, March 26. The Sheep-dog Trials resulted:— Driving and yarding: H. R. Scott's Boss L A. C. Morton's Jed 2, Fletcher's Chum 3. Twenty-ono others competed. Driving and yarding (two dog*): W. B. Grant's Darkie and Floss 1, Fletcher s Chum and Tidy 2, M. M. Scott's Lie and Pie 3. Five other pairs competed. Heading, driving, yarding and bringing back: Grant's Darkie 1. J. Sutherland's Bonni 2, A". H. Greaves' May 3. Twenty-seven other competitors. GISBORNP;, March 26. There are 230 applicants for the sections in the Te Arai Estate lately acquired by the Government The ballot la - °" moirow- TIMARU. March 26. At the Magistrate's Court this morning three prohibited men were fined in the aggregate £11 for having procured liquor. A fourth man who aided them ;was fined £3. The Magistrate said that if such fines proved ineffectual in preventing prohibited persons from obtaining drink hi would impose'the maximum only. Two objections have been filed against the Borough valuations, but when the Court sat this morning to hear these neither party appeared, and the Magistrate signed the roll, which now stands at £90,704, without alteration. DUNEDIN,- March 26. A five-roomed house at Maori Hill, owned and occupied by J. R. Ronald, a motorman, was burned at four o'clock this morning. Ronald's wife and three children were rescued with difficulty, but nothing was saved. The house was insured iot £300 in the South British, and the furniture and effects, valued at £80, were uninsured. ~--