TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 8

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 10. The Old Boys’ Association of the Sacred Heart College to-day presented to the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) a specially executed copy of a painting of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The original by L. J. Steel hangs in the college museum, where it was admired by Lord Bledisloe on a visit last year, GISBORNE, June 10. The decision that no offence had been committed was given by Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., this morning in a prosecution under the Trading Coupons’ Act, in which Mrs Eastwood, bookseller, was the defendant, consequent upon having issued to the purchasers of school books to the value of 4s a theatre matinee ticket. The magistrate held that the law provided that coupons should be redeemable for cash, but there was no section which said that if a person contravened that position he could be liable for an offence. Further, though the defendant was charged with having redeemed coupons, the magistrate did not think she had redeemed them. WELLINGTON, June 10. Trouble in one of the main switches of the combined Waikare-Mangahao electric supply system at 8.41 cut out Waikare and threw the whole load on to the Mangahao station, considerably overloading it and causing a general drop in the voltage. One curious effect would be noticed by many users of electric clocks, which, in consequence of the drop in frequency, lost four minutes in half an hour. There was no need to alter the clocks, as the engineers at Mangahao are putting them right by the simple method of running the generators a trifle fast until the lost minutes are made up,_ after which the station will revert to its 50 cycles per second. The surveyors are still making an examination of the steamer Golden Harvest in the floating dock. Until the surveyors’ report is received it will not be known what repairs will be necessary to the hull of the vessel. GREYMOUTH, June 10. James M‘Lay Wright was sentenced this morning by Mr Justice Blair to three years’ hard labour, following his conviction on a charge that, with the intention of annoying Joseph Nohra, he attempted to alarm Nohra by the discharge of an explosive adjacent to his dwelling house at Capleston.