INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6018, 15 July 1903, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Br TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION). W'ANGANni, Last Night. VV. EI. Bryant, who mated that he wail magnetic healer and a clairvoyanr, and who ha* been practising in Wt-Ilington for the pas; three months, was fined £5 on each of two charges of palmistry and fortune telling in the Police Court this morning.

CußisTcnußCH, Laßt Night. Feron, Huddleston, and Flett, three railway shunters, who were convicted on Friday of stealing goods from the Christchurch railway station, were sentenced this morning to four months' imprisonment each. An application for probation was refused.

he American ship Emily Reed, from Hobart, put into Lyttelton in distress 00 Sunday. She is loaded with timber for South Africa. She is said to be in a leaky condition, and a considerable nomber of the crew are under arrest for having refused duty. There ia al6o Bickness on board. Dr. Finch, district health officer, and Dr. Upham, health officer for the port, with the Customs and police authorities, went to the ship this afternoon. As she comes from an infected port the ship is to undergo quarantine for eight days.

This Day. The Waikmakoriri railway bridge, which was damaged by floods, has been repaired, and trains run to day. Donedin, This Day. Nothing further has been ascertained re Osmond's disappearance

Napier, Last Night. A large meeting of parents of past and present boys of the Wanganui College unanimously adopted a resolution expressing the deepest sympathy with Mr Emson, headmaster, in the great trouble he has recently experienced, and un» abated confidence in him and the school. A similar resolution was unanimously carried by a large meeting of old boys. This Day. Yesterday the H»wke's Bay Brewery, five town and twelve country hotels, in the estate of the late Mr Kobjohns, were told to a syndicate.