NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

/ tor TW.EbtUPH — WE33 iSSOCUTIO.t.I > _ UNION GO.'S PREMISES ENTERED. , A YOUTH ARRESTED, i . Now Plymouth, Juno 15. A youth, ntimod Thos. Archibald, met \yith an unpleasant surpriso early, this morning. At a quarter past two o'clock, Consiablo Flanagan, on duty in Brougham Street, near the railway station, noticed someone emerge from - near tho back portion of the Union Steam Ship Company's ofiiccs, carrying: a cash box, run across Brougham Street, and ! then attempt to scale tho fence dividing tuo railway yards from the street. Tho constable' . was too quick for the fugitive/ and seised lm beforo ho was over tho fence. Ho _ proved to 'bo Thomas Archibald, a pale-fnced youth just over sixteen years of age, who inwal in New Plymouth from Onchunga on I'riday last. This morning ho was brought before Mr.- H. : S. Fitzherbort, 531., and charged with breaking and ontoring the ; countinghouse of tho Union Steam Ship Company, and stealing a cash bos valued at 55., and 14s. lOd.'in casn,.the property of the Union ; Company, together with £4 7s. Id.,- belonging to Mr. J. Neale, the company's actingmanager at New. Plymouth. Accusod was - remanded till Monday, to enable tho police to mako inquiries. BOARDINCHOUSE THEFTS. ■ : v Eltham, Juno 15. In the Polico Court this morning a young »man named Bertio Lyons, alias Henry Davis, was brought up on four charges of theft ra » boardinghouso at Eltham, and sentenced /to tlireo months' imprisonment on each charge, the terms to bo cumulative. Accused, who 1 was nrrested 'in Wanganui; had been previously- convicted for a similar offenco,. and is ■ now wanted at Hamilton,, where he .will bo brought up to. answor charges of forgery and theft. *

LICENSES IN THE KINO COUNTRY. . Wangariui, Juno 15. At a mooting of tho Wanganui Young Men's No-liioeiise.Club last, the foi- • lowing resolution was carried • unanimously: ,'!Thiit this mooting,/representing a membership of many' hundreds of young menin tho Wanganui electoral district, enters a vigorous : protest against tho granting of licenses m tho King Country, and urges the Government to take immediately the stops necessary to rectify the injustice." AUCKLAND POST OFFICE. > j Auckland, Juno 15. Operations in connection with the building of tho new Auckland Post Office began to- - day.. - The . contract price is just under £100,000, and it is expected that the work . will occupy about two and a. half years. THE" BULLER HOTELS. , Woatport, June 15. ■.'. Three fresh applications for now publicans' lioOnses in tho Bullcr electorate have alroady boon lodged for hearing at the next annual meeting of the Licensing Committee, twelve > months hence. Ono application is for a license 1&t Mine Orcok, and two at Ngakawau.- ; , A FEILDINC PROPOSAL. Felldlrig, Juno 15. . The Chamber of Commerce last night de-. ■ cided to take steps to arrange for the holding • of- an exhibition of colonial industries and ' ■ tnanufaotures in Feilding. : .. BULLER RIVER iN FLOOD. v ■ ;v v .Westport, June 15. • The weather was very bad last night, and •there : is a heavy flood in tho river to-day. A SUCCESSFUL TECHNICAL SCHOOL. , . ..Palmerston North, Juno 15. . Tho first section of .the new technical school building in King Street was opened this evening .by the chairman ofthe board (Mr. .W/ Rutherfurd). It provides accommodation for tho plumbing, wood-working,; and .#wo?I- ---:: -' dissing sections.'. o,The main building 'is-, not. yet-completed.- 'The school was initiated in / 1006, and has hitherto. Ikon accommodated in rooms in various parts of the,town. It has now 300 students, and is. ono of tho'most] successful technical schools in the Dominion. NEWS IN BRIEF. Dunodln, Juno 15. i -'Frederick Charles Lacey was to-day committed for trial on a charge of arson at Dun-. ■ edin. ' -•