DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 89, 3 June 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

LAST NSCHT’S TELEGRAMS. (Per Press Association. 1 Wellington, Last Night. Owing to the difficulties which have been experienced in communicating the necessary information to and getting registration returns in from the outlying country districts, and the fact that it will take the Defence Department til) the middle of June to check the lists of those already registered, the Minister ot Defence has sanctioned an extension of time to register up to 7 p.xh. on June 17. 1911. There can be no further extension of time beyond the 17th of June, and those who arc not then registered will be subject to the penalities under the Act. i Wellington, Last Night. The North Island Railway Appeal Board, which sat this week to hear the appeal by J. W. Haughie, late fireman and acting-engine driver at Gross Creek, against his dismissal for coming on duty in a condition rendering him unfit to take charge of an engine, has decided against the appellant. Auckland, Last Night.. The Irish envoys addressed a crowded meeting in His Majesty’s Theatre tonight. The usual motion was carried 'unanimously. The sum of £1072 has been already collected in Auckland, the biggest amount so far in any New 7 Zealand town. Hokitika, Last Night. This morning Charles Cox, an old ago pensioner, a resident of Grenstone for many years, was Seen to walk into the Tcrcmakau river, near Kumara, and was drowned. Waihi, Last Night. In reference to the reported aspersion cast "upon Waihi by Mr. Poole, M.P., the local organising secretary of the NoLicense League, has received a letter Mr. Poole stating that the report *in‘ the Invercargill Times of the speech at Invercargill was inaccurate. Invercargill, Last Night. In reference to the statement by Mr. Poole,. M.P., that in regard to Tus references to Waihi recently that he was misreported by the Southland Times, that paper says:—“Mr. Poole was reported to have said: Waihi at one time was a queer place, and it was safe for a ■woman to walk the streets there. The expectoration was dreadful, and the rudeness was rampant. Under no-lieensi such abhorrenccs had vanished, and now Waihi was one of the cleanest and prettiest towns in New Zealand, and was as safe as Invercargill in re-affirming no-license at the forthcoming elections. Our reporter maintains that this is an accurate account of what Mr. Poole •said, except that he mentioned that the danger to women was at night. Our reporter also states that Mr. Poole continued to cast a serious reflection on a member of the Waihi bank, which, if published, would have laid the paper open to a charge of libel.” Palmerston N., Last Night. The Supreme Court sessions continued to-day. Charles Wilson and Ada Florence Wilson were charged with breaking and entering and theft from a dwelling at Longburn. The female accused was fouml not guilty and male accused guilty. He was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labor, and declared an habitual prisoner. Wilson had numerous previous convictions against him in all parts of New Zealand.