GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12074, 18 September 1902, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

,♦ 1 [BY TELEGRAPH.—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. The ceremony of driving the first pile of the new bridge over the river at Lower Hutt was performed to-day by the Acting-Premier (Sir J. Ward). The structure will be an important arterial connection, and is being erected at a cost of £10,000. Tiharu, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court the jury failed to agree in the charge of breaking and entering the Temuka Railway station, and the jury was discharged. Joseph Linton, found guilty of stealing £13 from the person (a case of "taking on" a drunken man), was sentenced to six months. CHiusTCiinßCir, Wednesday. John Waiters was committed for trial to-day on a charge of attempting to commit rape on a young married woman at Christchurch on September 13. The shop of Mr. W. Allison, chemist, at Rangiora, was broken into last night, and £14 stolen. Mr. Allison was away at the time. Mr. Gibbs, secretary of the Colonial Mutual Life Society, who is now in Christchurch, states that the funds of the society are not in any way affected by the disappearance of J. E. Walton, who was adjudicated a bankrupt in Dunedin yesterday.