NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11500, 5 February 1903, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

■■ - » (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, February 4. The balance-sheet of the Auckland Say- , ings Bank showed the deposits have increased from £30,055 to £829,695. The Reserved Surplus Profit Fund amounte to £50,000. The Australasian Institute of Mining Engineoxe met to-day, when delegates were present from the Australian States. Mr H. H. Gordon presided. Routine business was transacted, and the delegatee then adjourned to the Council Chaanbere, where the Mayor, Mr A. Judd, gave them a civic welcome. There was an excursion round the harbour this afternoon for the benefit of the visitor*. The mining engineers resolved thalfa the headquarters be Melbourne, and that the next meeting be held in Sydney in 1904. Sixteen prisoners, remanded from, the lower Courts for sentence, were dealt with at (the Supreme Uourt. John Thomae Corkin, for forgery at New Plymouth, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, end Francis Norman Johnston, aged 19, a returned trooper, for stealing £27 from his rack at Stratford, to twelve months. Geo. Taylor and John Kennedy, for breaking and entering and theft, received four years' imprisonment. Mr Justice Conolly this morning commented upon the singular youth of the prisoners who came before him -for sentence. Out of sixteen, only two were over thirty yeara of ago. The majority were between seventeen years and twenty-nine. The chief caue«9 appeared to be drink and gambling. WELLINGTON, February 4. -the Supreme Court John Joseph Murjey, convicted of indecent assault on a gin seven yeare old, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with hard labour NAPIER, February 4. At the meeting of the Borough Council this evening, it was decided to reduce the number of Councillors from twelve to nine. It was alno t decided to request the \ .Railway Department to run a lafcj train to g r.nd from Hastings on Friday evesninge, in- £ stead of on Saturday evenings as hereto- 1 fore. In response to a requisition from c those interested, the-Council agreed to exempt the hairdressers and butchers from r the Saturday half-holiday 8 , DUNEDIN, February 4. S The Executive of the Council oi 8: Churches hne decided that with a view to V giving effect to the recent decisive vote g of the people a vigorous effort will be X made to nominate a strong temperance 7i committee at the next election of the Licen- B wing Committee, and that the names of S the following be submitted for approval t, a* candidates:—Dr. de Latour. Messrs A C B*gg, J. A. Wilkinson, D. C. Jameson, sc and 'M. W. Green. II WOODVILLE, Febmary 4. J, , The were the principal prize- t> winners at the show to-day: Sheep Lincolne, Mr Perry; Romneys, Mr Allen; m Dorsets, Mr Harding; English Leicester*, v •Me Co6per; Shropshire*, Mr Cooper; Southdowns, Mr Cooper; miscellaneous, h Mr Beattie. The points' prize was won 9» by Mr Allen. Cattle—Shorthorns, Messrs 511 Monteith and Quirk; Avrshires, Messre 9s Luxford, Standen, and Walker; Jerseys, T, Messrs Lancaster and Newport. The O j, 3i\ilk test for dairy cows was ivon by Mrs U« Jonee. 5H ■ no