TELEGRAMS.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4255, 24 February 1909, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

a ; [j Wellington, Feb 23. g Walter Alexander Nuline, amid dle-aged man, was charged to-day g with attempting to committee sui j. clue. Financial and domestic troubles wore advanced by the ac cused as bis reason for attempting to ir shoot himself. He was ordered to p re'urn to the hospital and to come g up for sentence when called upon. Wjung.'kei, Feb. 23. j At the Police Court, Arthur Edn ’ ward Sell and Marguerite Sell were s charged with committing an aggravated assault on a child named y Allen Boger Tait, the son of the e female defendant, aged three years s , and four months. The child w.o a s fearful mass of bruises from head to , s foot. The doctor said the child had , been beaten in a most cruel and dis--3> graceful manner, and could not have n stood it much longer. Giving judg- . ment the bench said the perpetrators t should be flogged till they were black r and blue, but he did not want to send a a young couple to gaol. They were fined £5 each, or three months’ im- . prisonment. e Carterton,' Feb. 23. The directors of the Belvedere Dairy Company met yesterday and decided to withhold from the Press the amount of tbeir monthly cheques.They state that the company is aprivate one, and that they do not e desire to know what they are doing., )f The amount of yesterday's payment was withheld, Ij’ Napier, Feb. 23. The Medical Conference in Council n resolved that members of the New n Zealand Branch of the British Mediir cal Association shall not allow their names to be advertised as surgeons 1 to jockey clubs or other institutions ; y further, that members shall. not act as hon. surgeons or physicians a to any cause or institution other 1 than a charitable one, and that 1 throughout the Dominion the fee for 0 examination for life insurance be j not less than one guinea, thelresolu- . tions to be binding upon every member of the New Zealand Branch.