TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 19727, 30 January 1906, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Per United Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 29. Mangotoroto and Maugawhara estates have been acquired from the Assets Board by the Government at £3 12s 6d and £3 10s per acre respectively. The estates adjoin MaUunata, and contain about 3500 acres, WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. Premier denies that Mr Macintosh, General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is leaving the institutiiou owing to any difference of opinion concerning the Government's banking account, J*. W. of Wellington, the Rhodes scholar for New 'Zealand, who went to Oxford last October, ; lias won an open school scholarship at Trinity College of the value of £BO. The winning of the scholarship is considered at Oxford to be a greater scholastic feat than winning a Rhodes' scholarship. John Frederick Crook, charged with escaping from the Mount Cook prison works, was to-day sentenced to six mouths’ further term, and also to three months’ concurrent with his present sentence of three tears for (he-theft of clothes subsequent to his escape..: CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 29. In reply to the rumour that Mr Macintosh, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand is severing his connection with the bank owing to some difference of opinion with respect to the Government’s banking account, the Chairman of the Bank (Mr F. De C. Male!) for himself and his colleagues emphatically denies that Mr Macintosh’s resignation was caused or brought about through any difference of opinion respecting the Government accounts. The police returns for 1905 for Canterbury and North Otago show that 3560 offences were reported as against 3913 in the preceding year. The total number of persons apprehended and summoned was 3438. There were decreases of all the most serious offences and for drunkenness the number of offeiictes reported was 1537 us against 1889 during 1904.