LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1367, 12 May 1898, Page 28

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

I Auckland, May 10. A fire broke out this afternoon in a brick workroom at the back of a shop in George street, occupied by Messrs R. Dunne and Co., picture frame-makers. The room was gutted. The frame, mouldings, &c, were insured in the Phoenix office for .£l5O. Mr Dunne estimates his loss at double that amount. After boring for coal for 12 months in various parts, Messrs Russell and Brewer have succeeded in finding coal at a depth of 85ft in a swamp at the back of Mackenzie's Hill, Kawakawa. Christchurch, May 10. Mr Peter Miller, licensee of the Bower Hotel, New Brighton, was fined .£5 Is for Sunday trading. Tlie evidence showed that it was intended to sell the beer, but through the customer seeing the constable in the bar he refused to take it. Mr Beetham, S.M, held that the intention to sell was a sufficient reason, and so coaf victed the defendant. Agnes Murray, a girl 15 ' years of age, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with breaking into six different houses and stealing goods therefrom. The charge was reduced to one of larceny, and the girl, who pleaded guilty, was committed to the Burnhain Industrial School. The " tote" betting cases were before the Magistrate's Court again to-day, when Martin Taylor and W. John Randall (who had pleaded guilty) and John Higgins were convicted and sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with bard labour, besides being ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings. Mr Kippenbertrer gave notice of appeal in the case of Higgins, ho was charged in conjunction with Randall, but who alleged that he had no partnership with him.