TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10007, 25 November 1908, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Pkb Pukss Association*.) WELLINGTON. November 25. A young man named Milford William Burgess, who was arrested" in Sydney, was brought before the Police Court here today on 15 charges alleging wholesale housebreaking in. aaid about Wellington during September and October last. Tho amount involved is about £IOO. The finger print system of identification played an' important part in the evidence, which is 6till being heard.

DUNEMN. November 25.' When William Luby, convicted of being a rogue and vagabond, was brought up for sentence at the Supremo Court this morning, the Judge said possibly the conviction was wrong. There was a law point which he must reserve for the Appeal Court. If accused kept straight in the meantime and went to work no sentence would be passed in the event of the conviction being affirmed. In the meantime he would be liberated' on his own recognisance. AUCKLAND. November 25. At the Supreme Court, William Francis Wilkinson was sentenced to throe years imprisonment on a charge of having stolen a mail bag and opened it, and with receiving a postal packet knowing it to have been stolen. At the Police Court a local printing firm, named Cullen, Howe, and Moorish, were charged, with having printed leaflets regarding Mr Glover's candidature without their narne and address. Defendants admitted a breach of the Act, but' pleaded that the leaflet was a biography of the candidate, and that his name being on the face of tbe leaflet it was sufficient. The Magistrate said that he believed the defendants deliberately took their name off the leaflets because they did not wish tbe people to know they had printed them for Mr Glover. He fined the defendants,£s. Sailed—Navna, for the Eastern Pacific ; Maiiapoiiri, for Fiji. Arrived —Devon, from Liverpool, via Australia.

GREYMOUTH. November 25. The attempt to refloat the Hawea failed. Another effort will be made to-morrow. The cargo is being jettisoned. ASHBURTON. November 25. Although the farming community lias just come through a very critical and financially stringent year, this has not prevented a large amount of business being transacted in land Gales. This' lias been very clearly exemplified by the Ashburton brunch of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, who report that for the twelve months ending October 31st thev have sold land to the total amount of over £258,000.