TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 11

TELEGRAMS.

(Pes United Peess Association.) AUCKLAND, April 9. _ The Pacific Cable Board steamer Ins is ■ to leave Auckland on Monday for a position in the Tasman Sea. The vessel is to repair a fault in the Eastern Com- - panv’s cable between Wellington and Australia. The location of the trouble is approximately 370 miles distant from Wellington. It is expected that the Ins . will be absent from port for about. 10 daJ S ’ DANNEVIRKE, April 9. * Last month a fire occurred at Nors»wood, which destroyed Mr Mathias a drapery store. Yesterday three men, residents of the township, Herbert Gleeson (a drover), Albert Graham Gleeson (firewood dealer), and Wm. HenryThomas (labourer), were arrested in con- - nection therewith, and brought before th. 4 court at Ormondville. They were re* manded until Friday next on a numbed of charges in connection with the fire, including a charge of breaking and entering. It is understood that articles from the store stock were found in the posses* sion of the accused, LEVIN, April 9. An 18-roomed house, owned by the Government, and occupied by Mrs A. Masters. on the outskirts of the borough, was destroyed by fire this morning, none of the contents being saved. The occupier left a fire in the range, the door of which was shut. She was absent feeding the pigs, and when she returned the building was in flames. There was a little insurance on the furniture, but the amount was not ascertainable. WELLINGTON, April 9Frederick Herring was fined £lO for being drunk in charge of a car. He waa - described as “practically a teetotaller,- • who bad been drinking with some country - friends. As it was a first offence, the license was not endorsed. Accused jiad> run into and injured a pedestrian. The next North Island band contest has been allotted to Wellington, to be held in February nest. The committee baa _ £IOOO in trust, being the surplus fromA* the contest held at Wellington in 1922 AA The music has been ordere dfrom England.. CHRISTCHURCH, April 9. ‘ Allen Edmund Wishart, aged 19 years, a student, was charged with causing tbe-'" death of a little girl, Joyce Primmer Porter, at Hornby. He was remanded to April 16. It is alleged that accused was cycling on the footpath, and knocked tile' girl over. " Judgment for the_ full amount, £12,8081’" was awarded the New Zealand Farmers*-* Co-op. Association in a claim against the estate of the late Richard Evans, the money being held to be due for wheat deals. A--Walter Ross, manager for J. Ballantyne-' and Co.. Timaru, was fined £ls and costs, for negligently driving a car, and bia - license was endorsed. For not producing.. a license he was fined os and _ costs, a charge of being intoxicated while in charger of a motor car being dismissed.