INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13597, 18 May 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

?«r Pr«sa Association. WELLINGTON, May 16. The death is announced at Battleford 1 , Canada, of Mr J. D. MacGregor, the only son of the- late Dr MacGregor, who was Inspector-General of Asylum:? and Hospitals. Mr MacGregor was an old Wellington College boy. i ■Sigurd Pearson, a fruiterer, was fined £lo°at the Magistrate's Court to-day for selling whisky. Decision was reserved on a charge of keeping whisky for sale. Defendant's breach of the law waV'said to have been caused by Chinese competition in the fruit trade driving the man to this step to liolp to make a living. REEFTOX, May 16. An enthusiastic meeting unanimously resolved to invite the West Coast BrassBands' Association to hold its nexti conrest in Reefton. The necessary guarantee was obtained in a few minutON. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, May 16. William Alexander Robinson and Margaret Savage, soil and daughter of an old woman Marga.iet Robinson, who died last Monday at Sydenham under pitiable circumstances, were brought up this nr.orning before Mr Day, S.M. The charges against the female accused were dismissed', and the male accused 'was committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter. Bail was allowed accused in £IOO and one surctv of £IOO.