GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11680, 15 June 1901, Page 6

GEN ERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[UY -ir.LWR '.I'll.— association-.] 'i i.'.iAi'.r, Friday. At the adjourned meeting of the Licensing Committee all the borough licenses were renewed on condition that more effective means of escape in case of fire are provided by fixed ladders or stairs, and spare ladder:! for use at street windows. (iisiiou.vt:. Friday. A man took from the shop of Mr. Good, jeweller, a parcel containing 13 goici wedding rings and a sovereign case. When ; he"parcel was missed Mr. Good went in search. The man admitted taking the parcel, but said he had done so in mistake, and then, getting frightened, concealed the rings under an outhouse, the locality of which lie showed. Mr. Good is satisfied that there was no felonious intent. Large crowds have witnessed the public trial here of Sergeant Siddtll's fire escape, iimuns those v. ho wont down the "shoot" being the Mayor. The sergeant says that anyone is welcome to make use of the. idea.. \Vi:!.UN'(.kin, Friday. Two men named Ramsay and Brown, who v. ere recently at rested ijv the police on a charge of having dynamited and robbed a side at .in hotel in Lyttelton, were before file Court to-day. it was announced by the police that this charge wotiid not be proceeded with. Evidence was then taken against the accused on a charge of being rogues and vagabonds and with having housebreaking ices in their possession. It appeared from the evidence that accused both possessed a considerable sum of money, and among their luggage weie found picklock, pliers, files, and an instrument that would open a lock having the. key in it from the reverse side. Counsel for the accused did not cross-examine witnesses, and at his reotiest the case was sent for trial to a jury, bail being allowed. New Plymouth, Friday. At the adjourned meeting of the Licensing Bench this morning the magistrate postponed ills decision upon the new license applications sine die, and also adjourned the renewal applications pending personal inspection of the premises. WaNGANUI, Friday. The Supreme Court, criminal sessions concluded to-day. Thomas Spalding, for common assault, was sentenced to fctir months; George Shannahan, alias Shan ion. for a brutal assault on an elderly woman was sentenced to eight years' hard labour; and William Drummond Smith, on a charge of arson, was sentenced to two and a-half years hard labour. The civil sittings are adjourned till the 4th insl.

Mr. Harry Hemus, formerly assistant officer in charge at the Auckland Telegraph Office, is up from Wanganui, on sick leave. He will be returning to We.ngauui in about ft week.