Telegrams.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3877, 23 May 1906, Page 2

Telegrams.

Auckland, May 22. James Regan, newspaper proprietor, was sentenced to a month without hard labour on a charge o£ criminally libelling Mr Beatty, Superintendent of the Auckland Mental Hospital. Mr Justice Chapman gave full weight to prisoner being misled by a plausible person, and that an ample apology was published, but the only punishment suitable for libel of such a gross character was imprisonment. Dunedin, May 22. Elizabeth Roy, wife of Alfred Henry Roy, of Ravensbourne, was killed by an electric car at Anderson’s Bay road. Wellington, This day. Over 2000 people attended the recital given on the Town Hall organ last evening by Dr Lemare, the great organist from Home. A man named David Hynson fell from the top of the tramways wire repairer yesterday afternoon and sustained a broken nose and an injured shoulder. A Permanent Artillery gunner named John Hay, stationed at the Heads, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself with a rifle. His nine-year-old daughter was present when he committed the deed, and his wife was only a few yards away.