INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. At the .Supreme Court sentences were passed as follows : —Frank Fitzwilliam, theft, six months’ hard labor; John Francis Jackson, false pretences, and forgery, two .years' reformative treatment; Thomas Gilhooley, indecent assault on girls three and five years of age, five years’ hard labor. Frederick Huin, a workman who pleaded guilty to theft of articles, was allowed two years’ probation and ordered to make restitution, and not to gamble or drink to excess. PAHIATUA, this day Thomas Ayrton, aged 73 years, an o!d settler, a widower, was found dead in the vicinity of his whare at Tiraumea road. Probably no inquest will be needed. WELLINGTON, this day. “The returns for January show a gratifying increase compared with the corresponding month last year.” remarked the chairman of (lie Wellington Harbor Board, Mr. G. Mitchell, in alluding to a statement of returns in respect to the volume of shipping am! cargo handled by the port authorities last month, at last night's meeting of the Board. The total net registered tonnage of trading vessels which arrived during the month of January was 327.153 ions, as compared with 284,033 tons during the same month last year. The total not. registered tonnage of overseas vessels departing for Groat Britain was 50,132 tons, as compared with 18,634 tons in January. 1924. The vessels which departed for overseas ports other than British aggregate;! 133.096. as compared with 145 778.' • CHRISTCHURCH. Ibis day. The annual conference of the. Royal Life-Saving Society was he’d Ibis morning, Mr. B. O’Neill, nroaidunt., being in the chair. On behalf of Canterbury it was moved that tho Dominion Executive Council be abolished, the mover saying that the Council had failed in its duties, and should be wiped out. The meeting is proceeding. W. Goss, a well-known Christchurch merchant, received a.cut on the head and left shoulder through his motor car going over a bank near Kaikoura, in attempting to avoid a collision. At a meeting of five hundred Canterbury school teachers a plan was drawn up and approved for distributing home lessons to scholars through the newspapers while the epidemic is on. Tho scheme will he sent to the Department for approval. Sales on ’Change: New Zealand Gov- , ernmant 51 nor cent. 1933. £101; Bank of New Zealand, lights, 31s 3d.