LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13352, 9 April 1914, Page 7

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

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AUCKLAND, last night. Two prisoners were brought up, for sentence at the Supreme Conrfc this afternoon. Teira Himmone, a native charged with forging and uttering ajcheoue for £4 10s, was allowed out on two years' probation. Harold ilveyes, who* was charged with a similar of&rice, but of greater magnitude, was sentenced to a year's reformative treatment. . The Governor will arrive m Auckland to-morrow to take up his residence until Parliament meets. The^ Governor and Countess of Liverpool, m company with th© Hon. A. L. Herdman and the Hon. Dr. pomare, will | leave Wellington on May 20 on a visit [to the Cook Islands. The trij> will be made by his Excellency partly for pleasure and partly for observation purposes, and will occupy about four weeks. The party will probably take th&ir lleparture from Wellington ior Rarotonga by the Willochra. Tlie original intention to j proceed to the Islands m the Government steamer Tutanekai has been abandoned, but it is -understood that the latter vessel will leave for Rarotonga m advance of the Mhail steamer and will be used for a cruise round the Islands. The party will prol_ably return by another mail steamer. Tlie personnel of the Commission appointed, by tho Government to report upon proposals for the construction of canals and other measures for the more profitable titilisation of inland waterways m the Auckland province is as follows: Mr William Ferguson (secretary and engineer to the Wellington Gas Company, and for many years engineer for tho Wellington Harbor Board), Mr E. Parry (electrical engineer for the Department of Public Works), Mr J. E. Watson (Invercargill, who will represent commercial interests). As a great deal of preparation is necessary m connection with the work to be done, it is unlikely that tho Commission will commence investigations before the end of the present year, CHRISTCHURCH, last night. This evening the driver of the second express to Christchurch, Mr C. Harrington, whose promptitude saved a serious accident on the 31st ultimo, was presented with an afternoon tea set and tray m silver, aud the fireman (Mr C. Beaumont) with a silver tea set oak tray, on behalf of appreciative passengers by the trainMr Walter MacFarlane, of Kaiwarra, died to-day.. Mr MacFarlane was a well known pastoral ist, who managed various estates for his father before acquiring Kaiwarra m 1881. He was an original member of tho Cheviot Counoil, one of tii© founders of the Canterbury Sheepownors' Union (president m 1911) ; a member of the A. and P. Association executive, chairman of the^ management committee of the Canterbury Domestic Syndicate. He went for a trip to Europe for his health, from which he returned a year ago not much benefited, and has heen suffering more or Jess ever since. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and a spn. WELLINGTON, last night, The City Electric Lighting Department shows good progress 1 . In tho past year tho revenue totalled £161,968, as compared with £58,157 m the previous} year. The expenditure this year amounted to £46.159, leaving a credit balance of £15,809, as against a surplus of £13,148 last year. The Mayor (Mr Luke) regards the result as particularly gratifying since the price of current had been reduced by Id per unit m the second half of the year. Private consumers took £46,769 worth of current last year, an increase of £1800.