TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8960, 8 December 1905, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Pbess Association.)

WELLINGTON. December 8.

A new postal regulation lias been gazetted providing that in future stamps must be placed on the front, or address, side of a letter and upon the right-ha.-.a upper corner of that side. Stamps plated on the back of a letter will not be recognised, and the letter will be surcharged as insufficiently prepaid. The next meeting of the New Zeala/.d Defence Force Rifle Association takes ph/.-c----at Trentham on the sth March. The programme just issued is on somewhat' similar lines to those of previous meetings, the prize money, however, being considerably increased, ' the total amcent bevr.g £1152, of which £203 is allotted to >!.e final match for the Belt. The money pri.:-s in each of the.first five matches have Ixvii increased in number from 43 to 70, with a total of £B9 to each match, or a gnmJ totai of 400 prizes of a value of £650. in the championship series the distances have been re-arranged, so as to allow the inclusion of long-range shooting. Additional service matches are provided for in the introduction for the first time of

"moving target" and "surprise targ. '." matches. Members of rifle clubs can take part in some of the teams matches. Owing to the increased target accommodation which will be available, Colonel Collii>s hopes to carry the meeting through in five days. The Colonial Ammunition Company has provided two prizes for longdistance shooting. Since the beginning of the present your New Zealand has exported 482,5350z of gold valued at £1,942,914, an increase in value of £67,430 as compared with the curresponding period of last year. Inspector Ellison has received word that a man named Power was killed last at Eketahuna in a fight with a man named Strid. The latter has been arrested. The New Zealand Alliance asserts that the figures received in connection with the no-license poll so far show that the licence vote_ of 1905 exceeds the 1902 vote by while the no-license vote of 19vS exceeds the no-license vote of 1902 by 25,914. This shows that- the no-license balance was 9582 in excess of the balance for license. If to this balnace of 99c2 there be added a balance of 0078 to the credit of "the no-license vote in 1902 the total balance in favor of no-license is 13,060. Final returns have to come from Bruce, Mount Ida, Invercargill, Riccarton, and Wakatipu, they will probably not materially alter the proportion.

DUNEDIN. December 8. Beatrice Mary Portwine, a married woman, aged 32, was found drowned in the harbor this morning. She left home lastnight about seven o'clock, during the absence of her husband, and was not heard of till the body was found. AS3BTJRTON. December 8.

At the Magistrate's Court, before Captain Wray, S.M., Richard Nealon, was charged on six informations with, selling liquor in a no-license district. A conviction was entered on the first information and alto on the second, and afterwards the prosecution was withdrawn on the others. After commenting on the amount of false swearing which was always associated with sly grog-cases, the Magistrate said that, owing to the difficulty in detecting such offences, a substantial penalty must be inflicted, and, as the accused had been once previously convicted for a similar offence, he had no option but to send him to gaol, and would sentence accused to two months' imprisonment on each conviction, the sentences to Tun concurrently. Accused's counsel said that he intended to appeal and bail was allowed of £IOO and a surety for costs.

HOKITIKA. December 8. A young man named Simon M'Leod was accidentally killed by a fall of earth at M'Leod's Terrace claim, Mikonui, yesterday afternoon.