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PEESS ASSOCIATION. DXTNEDIN, May 19. At tho Supreme Court to-day John Greig, who came up for sentence on a charge of forgery and uttering, was admitted to probation for two years on condition that h© paid ,£2 to Mary Houlihan by instalments, and £2 cofet of pro&ecu.tion by instalments, and abstained from alcoholic liquor. Charles McDonald, who had to answer thro© charges of breaking and entering, theft, and receiving goods knowing them to have, been stolen, was convicted of receiving stolen money. Ho was sentenced to on© year’s imprisonment and ordered to be detained for not more than four years for reformative ' treatment. Samuel McDonald, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court to nine charges of breaking an entering,' received a similar sentence. Thomas Boss w m convicted of the theft of gold tailings.and fined ,£2O. Ho is to be detained in gaol uAtil the fine is paid. , Private advices report the death at Saskatchewan, Canada,, of Mr Balfour Mill, banister, a son of Mr P. C. Mill, Drench Consul hero.
TAIHAPB, May ID. The Hon. G, Fo-wlds opened the new Taihape District Hospital yesterday. The building cost £3BOO. The Minister left by the south express this morning. A rapid rise in the Hautapu river considerably damaged the ■ hydro-el©ctrio tunnel works, which were almost completed. AUCKLAND, May ID. A, sever© earthquake was felt at Oranui shortly after 1 o'clock this morning.
HAW BRA, May ID. The premises of E. Dixon and Co., music sellers, were burglariously entered on Thursday night and the safe and till robbed of the contents, totalling about. .£ll.
HASTINGS, May ID. . Two sheep-owners were each fined £2. with costs 7s, for exposing Roe-infested sheep for sale, A native, on the information of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society, was charged with selling a set of stag's antlers without obtaining the consent of the Minister for Internal Affairs- He .was fined IDs, with 24s costa. The case was brought as a warning that trading in antlers is illicit.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7445, 20 May 1911, Page 5
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