DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 57, 31 October 1912, Page 7

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 30. William Savage was convicted at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, and fined £25 for sly-grog selling. He pleaded guilty, and Mr H. F. O’Leary, who appeared for him, asked that in fixing the punishment His Worship would take into consideration the fact that the accused was V married man and had never been in a court of criminal jurisdiction before. Dr. McArthur, S.M., said that the defendant must have known quite well what ho was doing. Such people were continually coming be/orc the Court, and he could not see fit to impose a light penalty. Timaru, October 30. The Timaru Borough Council last night, at the close of a. long enquiry into the complaints regarding the borough! engineer’s department, resolved to ask the engineer to resign. Mr Lced, in reply to the charges, said that these only : referred to small details which, under pressure of important constructing work, lie had been unable to attend to properly. Wellington, October 30. A public meeting to-night appointed a committee to go into the question of establishing a municipal golf links on the Town Belt. The Royal Choral Society waited on the Finance Committee of the City Council to-day in reference to the sition of the city organist, which is being vacated iby Mr Maughan Barnett, who is going to Auckland. Mr Barnett is also conductor of the Royal Choral Society, and the Society now proposes that applications he invited in England from musicians, £4OO to he given as a salary by the Council and £IOO by the Society committee in England' to reduce the applications to three, the Society having the right to veto one of those three if desired, and the Council then to make a final selection. Bluff, October 30. The Territorials’ strike has been amicably settled. The men attended to-night’s parade in mufti and matters were thrashed out with the officers. Summons have been issued against six defaulters to appear at the Court on Tuesday.