AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 23

AUCKLAND.

Emily Isinbuckle was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on the- 6th for sly "rog-selling in Auckland. On a recent Sunday she soldi a keg of beer to a party of young- men, who drank it in a stable. At the Supreme Court on the 6th George Sullivan, charged with abducting the girl Mary Harriet M'Sweeney, was found guilty. Mr "Justice Edwards eaid that Sullivan had entrapped a silly ohild, who probably thought she was going to make a grand match with a great and noble- actor. She was taken from her friends, disgracefully assaulted, and deserted by the prisoner. The accused was sentenced to five years for abduction and two years for indecent assault, the sentences to be concurrent. An electric lighting plant and X rays apparatus have been installed at the Thames Hospital.

A sitting of the Arbitration Court was held at Htmtley for the purpose of hearing a charge brought by the Waikato Coal Miners' Union against the Taupiri Coal Mines (Limited) of having unlawfully dismissed two members of the union, from the company's employ. The case was before the court on a previous occasion, and was then dismissed on a technical point-. After hearing evidence in support of the charge tho court dismissed the case without callingupon the defence for a reply. Two guineas costs and witnesses' expenses were allowed against the union. A report brought by passengers from the islands by the Hauroto is to the effect that the- Governor of Fiji, as High Commibsioner for the Western Pacific, has-gone to Tonga for the purpose of assuming control of the financial administration of that group. It is stated this step has been decided upon in consequence of friction between the natives and the British authorities at Tonga. The High Commissioner will receive and disburse all' moneys, and will, it is stated, pay a fixed salary to the native king and other officials. In the Supreme Court on Monday, in the case Johanna Angus v. Alexander Angus, a petition for divorce, cruelty was alleged and failine to maintain. The petitioner alleged that "while her husband was farming at Hunua he compelled her to do a man's work on the farm, including logging up, and that he several times xised a horsewhip on her. When she objected later he deserted her and went to Taranaki. The case is proceeding.