TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13263, 20 April 1905, Page 7

TELEGRAMS.

(Pf.b United Press Association.) Air l Ot • /|UCKI.Ai\D, April 19. Aped Stringfelloiv, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court to robbing Matthew Gear of £230 hv the. confidence trick was sentenced by Mr Justice Edwards to two years hard labour.

WELLINGTON. April 19. t> 110/-in?I 10 /-in? states that the returns of the 1 ost Office Savings Bank disclose the interesting'fact that the deposits during the quarter ended March 31 exceeded tho withH as. against iO4UO for the .corresponding quarter of 1904.

CIIRLSTCHURCPI, April 19. «i i Es « !llenc J' Governor visited the Knociog Convalescent Homo to-day. On tho 26th inst. his Excellency and Lady Blanket give a garden party at "Klmwood," the vice-regal residence here, and the following' _ day they visit the • Maori pa at luahnvi. near Kahpoi. R-is Kxoelloncv loaves for Wellington on tho 28tli to unvoil the Queen's statue there on tho following day. % For seven seats on the. Marshland School Committee eight ladies have been nominated. ' At the Lyttelton Poliec Court Win. Henry Francis Nott was charged with having, on the 17tli inst., with intent to do grievous bodily harm, pointed a gun loaded with powder and shot at his father. Tho evidence showed that an altercation had taken place between father and son, and the latter got a Run from a bedroom and pointed it at his father, who went for the police. When the poliec arrested young Nott_the gun was not loaded, though two cartridges which would fit the gun were found in his possession. The magistrate dismissed the case, as it hid rot been proved that tho gun was loaded. He characterise':! tho language used by the accused to his father as showing him to be either a lunatic or a- dangerous man. Solomon Sloan, on remand, was charged with having 'fraudulently misappropriated several sums of money, the property of the Australian Widows' Fund Life. Assurance. Society. The police withdrew tho first charge in respect- to a sum of £39 18s 4d, and accused pleaded guilty- to four charges in respect to sums totaling about. £20. Counsel for the. accused, in asking that Sloan should be admitted to probation, stated' that, he was little more than a lad, and was the son of highly respectable people. Ho had been earning £60 a year, which had recently !>een increased to £80. Tic had got into bad company, and had been' gambling, with the usual result that he had been tempted to retain moneys, and had ■ succumbed to tho temptation. The accused was remanded till Saturday to enable the probation officer to report! Two boys, aged respectively 12 and 13 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of having smoked cigarettes in tho public street, and were convicted and discharged. The pereon who supplied tho boys with Ihe cigarettes also pleaded guilt)', and was similarly dealt with, after the justices had warned him that lie rendered himself liable, to a fine of £10. WAIMATE. April 19. Tho residence of Mr F. L. Barker, about four miles from town, was burned to tho ground about 7 o'clock this evening. Nothing wa« saved excc.pt some plate. Mr and Mrs Barker were absent from home. IXVERCARGTLL, April 19. Although a very wet night, an audience of 1200 assembled to hear Mr William Thomson in replf to Fathor Hays's address here. Mr Thomson spoke, in favour of temperance, either total abstinence or temperance, according to the conseieoire of the individual; and condemned prohibition from Christian, historical, patriotic, and individual standpoints. At tho close Mr Bernard Nicholls, organising ager.- for the Now Zealand Alliance, almost created a disturbance by attenwting to address the meeting. But tho hall-keeper interfered on tho erotind that the hall had been erigagei) by the lecturer.

MOUNT It (J APE HU ACTIVE.

(Pkb United Tress Association,) AUCKLAND, April 19. A Taupo telegram states that Euapehu is unusually active.