TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14213, 14 May 1908, Page 7

TELEGRAMS

Umtid Pjibss Association.) WANGANUI, May 13. At U(« Ma«isi.ruio's Court this morning a luju wa., cuarssoi.. on the information of the uiuvay i-'cpartmonf, wilh making himself a nmsana in •••/.".mvay wring* by playing uujtn .lift ■ mi. 'ling pwumury help. Tho use was prastiwiiy a? a test to combat. il: > familiar inii;.;:i;< Tho defendant was linea iA and <.iisia (£1,3 ]i.'s).

VA „ , M,v 13. Fred Percy P.lelw,, who previously pleaded guilty i 0 I v.,,. oiuisfes of ioi—. v : to-day pleaded guilt.,- to t .ho theft of" £i 6 at Kaponga, and was con.mit!."! for sentonce.

.t lt 7r . NAPIIiR, Jfav 13. _ At the Hastings Police Couri iMs n'.orr, ing an elderly man named Fredeno!; Tk.,. Farr v.-a.= _ charged with attempting to commit, suioido bv taking poison. !Io v«s remanded till Saturday.

DANNEVIRKE, May 13. A polk was taken to-day for (lie purpose of fixing the weekly half-holiday. Tho result was 121 votes for Wednesday and 27 against it.

WELLINGTON, May 13. The Blackball Coal Company has sold its steam collier Pareora to the Southern Collipries a Association, of Now Soutli Wales. Captain Downie arrived from Sydney yesterday to take delivery of tho vessel for her new owners. Tho Pareora, which was formerly named the BToeze, was built in 1896.

The ratepayers of the Wades town portion of Wellington City voted to-day on three altornativo tram routes. The route favoured by' tho majority is i) 3 chains lonjr, and tho estimated cost of the scheme is £25,000. At tho S:M. Court, to-day a young man named Percy Faulkner, employed as a jockey, was committed for trial on a. ehad'ge of indecently assaulting a girl, aged eight years.

Ernest Wohrstcdt, charged with forging a name to a money order telegram, was committed for trial."