TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11029, 19 August 1903, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

: '(Pier' tfnited Press Association.) ' '" A BOISTEROUS ,V,OTA;QE. ' AUCKLAND, Augrnßfc 18.". The crew o£ the barquentine Pendle Hill, rwhicb. left this morniiJgin low ol.tk^ jKfi. . ; Awaru/Ei for Me»cury>Ba7 .ott Thursday night, ha 4an exciting experience. An easterly gale was blowing with great force, and the sea .running very high- On three occasions, .the; barquentine keeled -oyerj, to such an extent that the sea broke on the docks,, and for, a time ,it, was; {eared by those on board the tug that; the. .sailing vessel wouldnever reach port in safety. On arrival -at MeTpary, Bay Captain Owt>b and the officers of-tbe jßendle:Eill told i2be ; master of the tugboat that they had never. , been through such Jboist^rous weather befoie. j a puzzleß;. jrjgibbiJ. '■ ' ' ' ' AUCKLAND, August 18. At, . th© Supremei Courts. Mr Justice Cpn-i - oily confessed that he did not quite know what. to do with^two ; boys^wha had pleaded '.' ' guilty in the lower Court to breaking and entering a ' dwelling- neafr' Onehunga and ' stealing a silver watch and- chain, i ■ His Honor said he was afraid* there was a great deal- of -pestilent literature about, in'which boys read of tßfeves, pirotjte, and =iuch , people. This- was i 4h« firs^ ;time h*"' haH a case of this kind before him.- The industrial schboi," he'tetieve'd; made boys' worse, and probation ; wa^ hardly suitable. The. facts were, that 'tS^e^ys liad-pl^rtd" - truant on the day' in 'tqiiesttß^r had"G^>ne to the house, opened the 'window, and stoleti the>»Btch' and^chain; winch 'they tried to sell.'' "If" we had any real reformatories'! would send -thorn there7 w - : «aid his Honor/ • "but I am afraid we have not." Hid Honor then talked to .the boys .'severely, and admitted them to probation 'for 12 months. sayin<?. however,- that this 1 course was not a satisfactory one. i.