TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1680, 11 May 1904, Page 31

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

AUCKLAND, May .7. At a meeting of the Auckland BrassBand Association to make preliminary arrangements iu connection with the band contest in Auckland next year, it was decided that a committee including the Executive of the Association and citizens of Auckland should arrange details. It was resolved that the prizemoney for the test selection be .£ls0 —thefirst prize £75, and the second prize and other prizes pro rata, and_ that for the marching competition .£75 be allotted for first prize. * . James Sutherland, formerly a boot salesman in Queen street, wlio was adjudged a bankrupt in December, was arrested to-day on nine charges of breaches of tiie Bankruptcy Act. His deficiency was £1165 19s. The charges are that he obtained credit by falsely representing his position, neglected to keep the ' usual books of account disclosing his financial position, obtained the co-ment of his creditors to an arrangement of. his affairs in July, 1903, by a false balance-sheet, and bunging about the bankruptcy by rash and hazardous speculation. He was remanded to-day until W ednesday bv the Stipendiary Magistrate. Bail was. allowed in-two sureties of £IOO each. AUCKLAND, May -8/An open air meeting was held last night

under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council to protest against the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa. The following resolution was carried: —‘This mass meeting of citi- - Z ens of Auckland emphatically protests against the introduction of Asiatic contract labour into South Africa, believing that to do so would endanger the stability of the Empire, and be unfair to the white and coloured subjects of the Empire already in South Africa.” There was a large attendance, and the resolution, which was moved by Mr Eowlds, M.H.Ku, and supported by Mr Baume, " M.H.R., was carried unanimously AUCKLAND, May 9. Mr Jhistice Edwards does not appear to be enamoured of prohibition orders as a means of converting tipplers from the error of' their ways. AVhen a prisoner charged with assaulting a policeman volunteered to submit to a prohibition order his Honor remarked '‘No, no. My experience of prohibition orders and from

what I have heard of them is_ that they don’t prohibit/'’ - V ; : • . V -'The Supreine Court criminal sattmgs opened to-day. There are thirty-three oases on the.calendar. . Mr Justice Edwards, in delivering his charge to the Grand Jury, said the jury would no doubt . be surprised at the trivial nature of some of the charges—matters which should not occupy their attention, and put the countrv to great expense/ For instance, there was an old . man charged with using obscene ; iaugnage. This /w? 8 ,. 8 ’ which they would agree with him might be dealt with by a. two ■ Justices. However, persons liable to a ■penalty; of six •.months'. imprisonment or upwards might elect to be tried by a One method of preventing that /gSprfcof: thing would be simply to ignore stic>§-'trivial , but that they could Z : no£sld» -for persons , who had committed offences would then escape altogether. ;'.'.'43harles Edwards was . sentenced to two years*, imprisonment for breaking and entering and forgery. .■ ,V ;V. Aft, va ' meeting, of -the Hospital and Gbairitable Aidßoa.rd, it V*as stated that the Board’s finandes for the past year showed that the year started with an overdraft of £1978 an<'l ended with a Credit balance of £4859-

AUCKLAND, May 10. . In tho course of.the case of the man charged with resisting the police and ultimately escaping from custody, which was heard at the Supreme Court, Mr justice Edwards commented strongly upon the fact that three of the witnesses, who were Justices of the Peace, should hare permitted the man to escape from the police without taking some steps to assist the police. It was an error of judgment in which the Justices all appeared to participate. It was very wrong for them to have allowed the man to escape when handcuffed. Mr A, It. Harris, wha was giving evidence, exclaimed indignantly, "But, your Honor,a policeman was there; we could not be expected to act tho part of policemen.” Juuge Edwards, "I won’t argue the matter' with you Mh Harris. You can retain your opinion and I will retain mine.” NAPIER, May 9. At the Supreme Court John Lindsay, on a charge of perjury, was sentenced to

twelve months* imprisonment, and Robt. Keatley and William Roberts, for a similar offence, to six months*. Alexander Cullen Victor Plummer and Fred Stone- i street,’three youths, were found guilty! of a sexual offence, and admitted to pro- | bation for four years, and not to be allowed out after 8 o’clock at mgbt during the next twelve months. Sitting in divorce, the Chief Justice granted decrees nisi in the following divorce suits, both undefended: Edwara Henry Taylor v. Ada Florence Taylor,!on the ground of desertion; Thomas Henry Lamb v. Lucy Lamb and James Cross, on the ground of adultery. , The Court then adjourned till the 25th inst when the re-trial of Dennett Cleary and Winters, on a charge of larceny, will be taken. ; ‘ NAPIER, May 10, Information has been received of a , fatality which occurred at Paparata, a place about seven miles from Rotorua, on. Sunday afternoon. Tlire© youths, named. Richard Leonard Godfrey Mays aged seventeen, Charles Montgomery Clarke, aged sixteen, and Sydney Probert, aged. , sixteen, were on a shooting expedition, armed with a Winchester pea-rifle. After they had wandered about for some time without getting much game. Probert left

to go alone. After his departure Mays and Clarke commenced a game which they called "Briton and Boer” each taking shelter behind logs and trees and exchanging shots when it appeared safe. In one of these exchanges, Mays raised his head just as-Clarke was pulling the trigger of his rifle, the result being that the bullet struck Mays on the left temple, 'the injured. lad was carried by the others to his parents’ residence at Rotorua, ylere he gradually sank and died. Clarke has since been arrested. BLENHEIM, May 9. John Bary, a storekeeper at Renwick, was seriously injured last evening. Ho struck, a match to locate a leak in an acetylene gas generator when a explosion occurred, blowing out the ton ot the generator, and wrecking tho building. ‘Bary was knocked unconscious, and received severe injuries to his head, and body. Tho sufferer, whose condition is regarded as serious,.was removed to town this morning.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 9. The criminal sessions opened at the Supreme Court this morning before Mr Justice Denniston. The calendar comprises fifteen informations against twenty persons, four prisoners also appearing foi sentence. The Judge, when charging the Grand Jury, referred to the comparativelv large proportion of cases against persons for robbing drunken men, stating that he was glad to see that in other parts of the colony such cases had been severelv dealt with. A Kaiapoi Maori named Hone Maaka Mokomoko, who was convicted on a charge of incest at the last sittings, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. His Honor remarked that competent persons had informed him that natives looked with as much o* horrence upon conduct such as accused s as dfd white People. Herbert Edward Richards, a fifteen years old Burnham boy was ordered to come up for sentence on a charge of stealing a horse, and Francis Bthelred Rubery was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on a oharge of forgery and uttering. Thomas Laward Dowdle 1 was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for stealing a bicycle. DUNEDIN, May 9. At the Waterloo coursing meeting, the

owners of dogs engaged in the Plate and Purse agreed to divide the monej' rather ■ than attend on Wednesday to continue ! coursing. Results : J Waterloo Plate. —J. Printz’s bile w d Vicar of Wakefield (by Goldsmith —The j Witch) divided with J. C. 'Amoretliy’s 1 blk w d Vagabond (by Vagrant —Frisky, Lass). . . Waterloo Purse. —J. W. Price s (ns.) ' brd d Lord of Isles (by Onae —Cushla), R. O. Campbell’s brd b Amy Castles (by Gaban —Federation), and J. Penmans, brd w d Magnitude (by WitchcraftRingdove) divided pro rata. DUNEDIN, May 9. In the Bankruptcy Court to-day, Mr Justice Williams suspended for nine months an order for the discharge of i Walter Thomas Clarke, fishmonger. : whose bankruptcy was due to speculation ! on the share market, j OAMAHLT, May 9. i - Mrs Agnes Ross, a, married woman,

aged fifty years, died siudrlenly on Saturday might from heart disease. INVERCARGILL, May 9. Lieutenant Mohr’s resignation of the position of conductor of the Battalion Band having been forwarded to the Defence Department, the band paraded! to-night, and had instruments retutrnefl, Sergeant Galbraith being appointed bandmaster till a permanent selection is made. The Southland Acclimatisation Society has had a record financial year. It has liberated a quarter of a million trout %• Thirty-six red deer have been sent to Manapouiri, Kelso and to weetb of the Waiatu. Pheasants also have been bred, and the bulk of the birds sent to Stewart Island.