TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13210, 17 February 1905, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

(Feu United Fiiess Association.) ' AUCKLAND, February 16. Some timo agu a, decision was given in (lie Supreme Couft quashing (ho Auckland Oily Council's by-law regarding loitering in the streets. The council hns now decided to appeal against the decision of the judge. (iISiiURNK, February 16. A large number o[ intending purchasers from llie south are visiting this district mill the object, of ius'iociinjj the lands belonging to the East Coast Native Trust, i' shortly to be placed on f-ho market -for r settlement These largo areas of pastoral . (Wintry lire expeel«i to add materinlly to , flic prosperity of (he district. f NAPIKR, February 16. ! At.the Supreme Court 10-day the retrial 5 of Cliiirles Lawmi, charged with criminal , assault on a girl aged 13 years and three I months, was. proceeded with, when, a verdict of "Not guilty" was i'ttitrncil, In • tho ca-e of James Percy Holroyd and ; Thomas Henry Gibson, charged With the i theft of goods Wonging lo the New Zea- , land Clothing Factory.. Holrnyd pleaded [ "Guilty I 'nnd Gibson''Not guilty." Counsel for tiro defence asked for time to coti--1 sitler the position, and the ease was adjourned until to-morrow morning. MANGAIVEKA. February 16. A shop ami (Itvelliiirr owned by Sydney A. Pull was destroyed by fire, nothing being saved, owing lo Ilhn absence of water. Insurances on the building, £250; on the stock, £350. The furniture included a library valued at. £200. Mr Pull estimates his loss at £1000 nbovo' the insurances. WANGANUT, February 16. An old resident, iii tfie person of Mrs Elistoboth Oxenliain, nged 93, died at Wangahiii yesterday. The deceased, who is said to have arrived by iiie first ship to New Plymouth, retained her faculties till the last. She leaves a large number of relatives. WELLINGTON*, February 36. The North Island 'Representation Com-mission-will conclude, its work of.delimitating the single electorates of Auckland and Wellington to-night, and the new boundaries will be gazetted later <m, Tn sentencing a young man named O'Halloran to three months' imprisonment for embezzling his emnlover's moneys; Dr M'Arthur, S.M. said:* "If it got abroad that young men looked upon the. First Offenders' Probation Act as civing them a chance of having their 'first fling' it would ho a sorry thing that tho act-was ever pUsscd. Air Kirk, Government, Biologist, warns agriculturists against cultivatincr/ tho plant girtseng until there is some certainty of its pro'licets. The business of the Empire Hotel, Willis street; has been floated info a limited liability company with, a capital of £40,000. A meeting of Die Single Tax League condemned the purchase of Janet for settlement, and suggested that an increased land value tax should be imposed to prevent land monopoly. A meeting of ladies, presided over by Lady V/ard. .deeided to establish a lad'es' branch of the Wellington. Branch of .the Navy. League, with Lady Plnnkct as patron and Mrs SedOon as president. The Executive Council is expected to met on Monday to consider the recommendation to ftierey itlt)= bv the iury wliieh found Ellis; alias M'Kcnzie, guilty of the To Awaito murder. HOKITIKA; February IS. Mr L, F. Aysori, Inspector of Fisheries; has completed a most successful hatch of whitefish ova; reeentlv brought from the United States, at Lake. Kiihieri. The hatchery results eqtlal about 95 per cent. A similar result was achieved at Lake Tekapo, where half Of the colonial sliip-iiir-nt was sent. Tri chsitre a thorough establishment of wliitefish.it will be necessary to follow up the importations for the next two or three vears.