IASTNIGHfS NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11863, 29 May 1909, Page 2

lASTNIGHfS NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) ..:-.■;'. ASHBURTON, last »lgl>l* A man namM Tsiiac Baigeiili'-'whrf.'' today committed for trial at tlie Supreme i Court, Timaru, oil a charge of criminal assault on Martha' Alice. Fennell, a married-. woman, on Tuesday. The defence was reserved. Bail was allowed/ DUNEDIN, last night. At the' Police Coilrt to-day Louis Moms, who recntly -became, bankrupt, was -charged with failing to keep proper books. ' Mr Macassey, for the Crown, asked fpr a remand, for a week. It waa-a case'of failing to' keep proper books. . No amount " w;as , involved. The accused; 'was, remanded, bail being, allowed, himself in £200 and two sureties ofifilOO each^ H INVERCARGILL, last night. -Some anxiety^ has been felt for the safety of the s.s. - Tnvercargi.il, which went down to the Southern Islands- to bring back ihe; mutton bh'ders, and has' been overdue. Advice was received to--night that the Invercargill has been* delayed by bad weather, but is all light, and Was to leave; the islands for Colac bay to-night. ) • - WELLINGTON, ■ .. last- night. •.'. In reply to hostile criticisms on the new • Government}' Hpuse> „ Mr ; Campbell. Government architect, says 'that the working-; drawings are not 'actually completed ; yet; y The flat., pictures on ; wlii ch the disparaging comment was based were reproduced from ;; rough geometrical akjfitches, the purpose' of 'which'' Avas- to giVe a/ faint' idea' of rthe "extent and general arrangement <of the i buildings, but tliey ' could- not possibly . give anything, like a correct impression of how the. finished structure would appear.- As a. matter of fait, after' the rough sketch was di^wn/the plans weTe modified' and qhanges' made to include the breaking -up of ridgihg.' It is possible \that ; an 'unpretentious tower' may -be added, but tjhis point has not yet been decided. Mr Campbell claims, when the designs are finished, that . they will provide a house. wMch will not^deserA*© the/ stf'ictjures that) have been passed on the rough; incomplete sketches. He also-. points out that, being restricted to timber instead of brick,'. increases limitations in tlie way of securing impressiveness or dignity. - . . ■ V.