GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13724, 14 April 1908, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchttrch, Monday. The Mayor {Mr. G. Pavling) was nominated to-day for a second term of office. The City Council has decided to rescind the motion passed at last meeting authorising the removal of the Godley statue from its present site in Cathedral Square to a site in the Cathedral grounds. Gisborne, Monday. Alexander Cameron pleaded guilty I at the Police Court to a charge of obtaining £4 16s by false pretences, and was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence. He was also remanded to Napier on a charge of obtaining, in May, 1904, 2s lOd from Henry Sargeant, a hotelkeeper, by means of a valueless cheque. Napier, Monday. ' Two keepers of temperance hotels and a restaurant-keeper were fined at the Magistrate's Court to-day for employing assistants more than the maximum number of hours, in one week. In the Court to-day William George Brown, on a charge of theft of money, was admitted to two years' probation. Alfred Harrison, who, whilst drunk, assaulted his father, was fined £10.' Wei.tjntstox, Monday. A match between volunteers and local rifle clubs, 20 men a-side, seven shots at 200, 500, and 600 yards, was won by the rifle club men by 1744 against 1703.