Condensed News Items

Southland Times, Issue 19482, 9 December 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)

Condensed News Items

Sergeant John Muir, of -the First S. A. Contingent, died at Merton on Wednesday morning. He fought at New Zealand Hill, where Gourley and Connell were 'Bryan Fahey left Glenavy on Tuesday to round-u P a J^ng horse on an island in the Waitaki. He never returned, hut a riderless horse was discovered on the island. _ At Stratford on Wednesday Henry J. Callingham was committed for trial for a breach of the Bankruptcy Act in obtaining from Newton King, auctioneer, credit for £-129 by means of a lulse presentationTho Tradesmen's Association of New Plymouth passed a resolution on Tuesday that the patent merticine regulations are entirety unwarranted and detrimental to the interests of country settlers. Tho output of butter from the Wanganui coast shows an increase on last year's returns. At Patea 500 more boxes of butter have been graded than at the some date last year. Tho 'Justice Department denies that i the police have received instructions not to interfere wKh botta fide travellers. The police have received instructions to enforce the law as it exists. Mr F. W. Manslield, Registrar of Electors in Wellington, has Ween instructed to organise throughout the colony a system of compiling rolls similar To one which he has introduced in Wellington. 1 Mr T. G. Froeth, editor of the Manawatu Times, is announced as a candidate for tho Palnierston North seat at next election. 1 At Christchurch on Tuesday Paul An- " ton Artmann was arrested on a charge I of incendiarism. Fire broke out in his 1 premises at Colombo street at 8.20 0.m., ; and tho upper portion was gutted. The 1 building was insured with the Commeri rial Union for £150, and the contents i with tho London, Liverpool and Globe for £100. Artmann was remanded to ; appear again on the 13th". At Westport on Tuesday Archibald McAlister, who was suffering from drink, quarrelled with his” wife and delilwrately Bet fire to his four-roomed house at Granity (jnear Wostport). The. Luildlng was destroyed with its contents. It was not insured. McAlister was arrested.