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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4299, 7 March 1901, Page 5

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TKBSS ASSOCIATION

DUNEDIN, March 6,

Amelia Bilson, was to-day fined £lO and costs in tie Magistrate's Court for selling’ beer with oysters;: i, -■ 'An application by the Town Clerk, on behalf of the Corporation, for the right to use lie'water of the Taien river for the generation of electricity as’ a motive power for the city 1 tramways and dlluminating purposes was granted by Warden Carew. . ■ The re-hearing of- the charge against Alexander Thompson of having murdered George Gibb, on the Otarama ,cn February Ist;, .whs 'concluded to-day. Accused reserved his'defence , and was again committed for trial. Bail was fixed at £SOO aid two Sureties of; £250 .eadii , At the City Council meeting to-night, the recommendation” of, the Tramways Committee, ,to appoint- Bfr Dr'B. Bunson as general manager' of the tramways, when tdien over, was adopted. It was mentioned'that it was/lot a permanent appointment, as an expert , would pro>!y be required when the electrical system was installed. y . NELSON, March 6. - ; At the Supreme Court, Dr Leggatt, charged with performing an illegal operation, was found not gnflty. ~ .NAPlßßf,.March,£• At a meeting of the Napier Borough Council to-night, it was decided do abolish the ward system of representation,- and in future: Councillors, will be elected by the whole of the ratepayers. A letter was received from Mrs Berry, widow of'the late Lieutenant Berry, who died from enteric fever in South Africa, stating , that she . had received the first instalment of a pension of £/4. and it was-understood, that an Imperial pension would also bo available. ino Council decided t<P cease the present grant to this March 6. Work has been stopped at tlio Kavangahako railway tunnel; About fifty men ceased work. The average waaes last month only reached 4s sd■ and os • 3d i daily, at the respective ends. i - GISBORNE, March 6. Information has been received from 1 the Hon Jas. Carroll that the GovernIment will send an expert to report on the timber, at Motu, the wholesale destruction of which by fire has caused an ° U trrider the new San Francisco ■ mail arrangements Gisborne should get its portion of the mail within thirty hotu-s of arrival in Auckland, but owing to the 'late arrival of the Ventura,-the nmd 1 reaches the South Island before it gets to Gisborne. _____