INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11140, 2 December 1907, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) \^ AUCKMND, . this i day. . The T^U|riiari G^tisolidated directors have declared a dividend of one shilling per share, payable on; : December 21st. The total paid will 'then be £165,000. The Wailii Company paid a dividend of 3s 6d per share to-day, the total paid being £2,839,432. : Joseph Penry Jones appeaix»d before Judge Denniston to, \y& sentenced on a charge of having forged '» 'ielegitaph money-order. Prisoner said he stole the money to get married. His Honor said he could not grant probation except in cases of previous good character. He deferred' sentence for this evidence. NAPIER, this day. , iNovember was one o'f 'the driest months oh record. The total rainfall was only half -an-inch. There is still no sign of a break, and fanners are becoming anxious. ' . HAWERA, this day. His Excellency tjie Gqyernoa % , av-lio h_as been spending ai week 1 fishing) in this.dastrict, returns to Wellington to-uiorrdw. Lady Plunket leaves for Auckland today. v - ' ' ■ ■ ■ '-■'■••■ •■■-• . ■■'. WELLINGTON, this day. * Defendant in the Pollock v. Beeson criminal libel action Was found guilty. Sentence Avas def erred, pending argument in the Cburt of Appeal. Bail Avas allowed. Nine of the bookies sentenced to t imprisonment recently at Christchurch,' and Avho were first offenders, have had the remainder of their sentences remitted by the Ooveriior.'; Mr; McGowan, Minister of Justice, has recommended- his Excellency to remit- half the sentences of the otheris 1 "who \vere sentenced at the same time :/ '"- ; -'- : ' : ' ■■- : - ■ il ' "■; Following are the largest estates of deceased persons finally certified to last month: — Auckland district : Alfred Price £40,779, Robert P. Gibbons £37, 920, John GoldsAvorthy £8986, Thomas Radford £3798, Anne Babe £3701, Thos. CranAvell £3604, John. McLean £2791, Harriet Wade £1434, Cecil Lauson £1153, Catherine Bell £1217; Welington district: Wm. R. E. Brown £26,745, Charles Stuart Menteath £11,077, Thomas Waters £11,090, George Fullford £8390, Thos. Smith £7237, Alex. G. Gordon £6485, Robert Watson £5742, Joshua Goodfellow £5392, Thos. tWhiffen £4780, Arthur Diamond £3713, .AndreAV Campbell £3411, Annie Rice £3347, Gottfieed Mtschke £3322, EdAvin Wakelin £2932, Taare Tuhua, £2851, Geo. Springer £1617, Chas. Martin £1584, Patrick Heganty £1556, David Lindsay £1549, E. Lidell £1130; Canterbury district: Elizabeth Garrick £18,875, Chas. Faulknor £15,726, Thos. Allen £7949, Mari anne Allison £4993, Caroline Dearsley £2880, Maiy Ann Smith £1730, EdAvin Wroat £12019; Otago district : Thos. Macanley £4159, Geo. Aitchison £3641, Jos. Garside £2467, Robert Macgourd £1818, Robert McCaw £1493, Wm. 1 Cumming £1424, Helen Sheppard £1136; Nelson ■district : Frances .Pasley £1566, Charlotte Gipps £1104; New Plymouth: Wm. Goiyer £22,845, Thos. Good £2426, Mary Noonan £1918 ; Westland : Thos. LoAvery £2257 ; Southland : Malcolm Colquohn £1561, Jas. Sutherland £1502. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A prisoner, named 'Archibald. Campbell. McKenna, undergoing four years for rape, escaped from the Hanmei* prison on.Saturday evening, but was recaptured yesterday. '