DOMINION NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15313, 14 August 1923, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

DUPLICATE SUVA CABLE.

By Telegraph. —Press Association. AUCKLAND, Monday. The Stephan, which left on Friday with the shore end of the duplicate Suva cable, returned. this morning, having connected with -the ocean end of the cable 100 miles distant. The work was completed at 10 o’clock cn Saturday night.

P. AND T. CONFERENCE.

WELLINGTON, Monday. The Post and Telegraph Conference passed resolutions recommending that better class material be used in making uniforms for employees, and that the Railway Department be approached on -the question of having the postal van attached to the Main Trunk expresses placed at the rear of the train. Owing to the president’s delayed arrival the formal opening of the conference will take place to-morrow.

WEATHER IN HAWKE’S BAY.

NAPIER, Monday. The continued heavy rain and the melting of the snow on ranges combined threatened the districts round about Hastings and Napier with a serious flood during the past few days, but, thanks to the excellent river mouths and temporary' spells from heavy rain, the flood danger has again passed, subject to there being no further heavy rainfall. There was a light drizzle to-day, but the bad weather appears to have broken. For several weeks the whole countryside -has been sodden and almost waterlogged, and the threat of serious flooding bore a dangerous aspect. On all sides there is abundance of surface water. All over the district, where lambing prospects have been bright, the mortality among new' arrivals will be heavy.

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

WELLINGTON, Monday. At the Supreme Court to-day Herbert Harold Macknelly, for obtaining £IOO by falsely representing that he had the sole' rights to distribute advertising matter in the School Journal, was sentenced to six months imprisonment; John Edward Ledderwick, for indecent assault on a male, was ordered reformative detention for two years; William Joseph Gelt, a Chinaman, for receiving stolen cigarettes, received 12 months in gaol; Norman Horace Jury, for breaking the Bankruptcy Act, was sentenced to two years' reformative, Clarence Burton, for theft, received a year’s reformative; Montagu Henry Pennycuick, for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to 12 months and declared an habitual criminal.