TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1924, 21 August 1888, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

(PBB FHXBS ASSOCIATION.) Leasing of Railways. AUCKLAND, AUgUBt 21. VLt Samuel Vaile In reply to a communication from the Minister of Pubiio Works stating it was to lat« m the session to consider his proposals for leasing the railways, has replied suggesting that an Enabling Act might be passed at once so m to enable negotiations to be continued during the reoeis. ' The subject will be brought before a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. Child Burnt to Detth • A. three year old son of Thos. Casey, Walrongomaij was terrible burnt on Bonday afternoon. He was left m the house and was playing with the fire. He died last night. No doctor is within thirty miles of the plaoe at present. Coal Mine Syndicate. Mr R. W. Moody leaves for AuatrV't thli afternoon In connection with tbe floating of coal mining properties m this district, m Sydney or Melbourne. Supreme Court. Timaeu, August 21. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Judge Ward, m the first three ctses called the prisoners p!oaded gnlhy. John Russell Morrison. was s ientenoed to six months' Imprisonment, for falte pretences. The prisoner is a very old offender, but His Honor was evidently not aware of this. Henry Tathim, a lad of 15, get two years for an attempt to hive carnal knowledge of a girl of 11, and James Fergusson 12 months' for highway robbery with violence, the affair being more of a drunken brawl than a deliberate robbery. Hy. Russell charged with killing a sheep and stealing the carcase pleaded not guilty. He had camped on W. Grant's farm, Temnka, an* was found In possession of a oaroase white Grant missed the sheep.