TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13845, 7 March 1907, Page 7

TELEGRAMS.

JPer United Press Association.) ' i, ,i . NELSON, March 5. ». _ A f lho stallrto ''.V meeting of tlio Nelson ■ Harbour Board -Mr John 'Graham, JI.H.K. . was re-elected dhairniau for |h 0 seventh L year in succession. ' . Yi'ELLIXGTOX, March 5. ; A motion has boon filed the Supreme Court ou behalf of -tho },aw Society to ■ stake tho name of 11. S. I M rd off tho roll' ; o. solicitors, hard is serving five years ' for misappropriation of trust funds. nM . AUCKLAND, March 6. ■ Ihe Mayor of Auckland (Mr A. M. > Meyers) was to-day appointed to represent !• tho Auckland Education' Board at the conference of educationists lo be held in Lon- ■ don m May next. i At t1 PAUIERSTON N„ March 6. . «ni tll0 T Supreme Court this morning . <. p o '", a ' s . 1 Jjcslcv, who was found builty last night of attempting to cur--1 naly know and indecently assault his own eight-year-old daughter, came forward for • sentence. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman, '.11 passing sentence, said that (he prisoner had boon guilty of one of the 1 grossest offences known to the law. It s was bad enough to commit such a crime • upon a. yonng child, but, infinitely worse to i Jiavo broken tho trust imposed oil Jiini and , m" lnl r i l ' ll ' >0 " '" s o,vn daughter. - therefore, he would be sentenced to tho i maximum penalty allowed by tho Le°isla--5 tnre, but would be spared the degradation - of the lash solely bceausc lie had not - inflicted am- actual injury upon the child, i no would ho sentenced to seven year*;* - imprisonment, with hard labour. 5 * , » ,t.« ™ELTON. Match 6. 1 Koljcit M Cnrlliy ami Stephen Maxwell, " r jl rr SCapCfl a ' la|, d-labour gang at i Lrttdton on February 7, were chared 1 v I i i ' 1! ' sho ! > ' El the Ijyttelton > Magistrate s Court this morning, with 3 IfW, ro ' n ! c S al e " stot 'y. They pleaded s w»lt.y,_ and u'cro sentenced to 12 r months imprisonment, this sentence to bo . concurrent with their present terms,