NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 3. ( hing Tack, a Chinese fruiterer, in Wellington, has tiled. lie is only the second oankrupt Chinese in eight years. His liabilities are £2261, and assets £437, the latter including Chinese medicine £2CS. The cmlitors are pressing for public examinarion, and Ins books are being investigated. AUCKLAND, March 3. Mr Stuarh agent for the Royal Packet Navigation Company, which inns steamers '.\ t<_ n Australia and Java, has arrived ..it .\u< klarul to make arrangements for an eviio;:ion of New Zealand produce at Samanoig. {[,» points out. Java, though iniio I than our flouth Island, had a population of thirty-five millions, and has an l.iuimous market, for our produce. IX\ I'.HCARGILL, March 3. Ihe Supreme Court opened betiore Air Justice Sim to-day. The calendar contains ten charges against seven ]x»r•sons. AA m. Johnston, aged 30, married, pleaded guilty to attempting an assault on a single woman, His Honor csaid the circumstances wore peculiar and accused appeared to have borne a good character. Prisoner was fined . Alexander Jones, aged 19, for stealing from a dwelling, was released on probation. Edward Harland and Duncan McDougail were charged with breaking into the warehouse of Bray Bros., auctioneers. Harland pleaded guilty and was remanded lor sentence. The case against McDougail is proceed■ng.