NEWZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1539, 7 September 1912, Page 6

NEWZEALAND NEWS

(Dγ Telorraph—Press Association.) ♦ — TOHUNGA RASCAL, CAUTERISED n\ r MAGISTRATE. Wairoa, September G. ■ At the Magislrate's Court to-day, a case of toliiingiiisni,' arising out of the death oi' a Xntivo named Wiri Kupa at Molioka sonic timn ago, was investigated by air. Barton , , S.M., Wharo Taha being charged limlor the Tohunga Suppression Act with, certain unlawful practices.-The case, conducted liy Detective Kwnp, of Napier, resulted in a conviction. The fine and expenses totalled .£33 Us. Gd. It was proved that accused had treated several persons at Mohaka and Vniroa for devils, lie had so terrified the side persons that they feared to call in a doctor. Accused, in his defence, denied treating patients or charging them; ho lmd only prayed to God for them. Mr. Barton characterised tho accused as a gigantic fraud and a. low blackguard, and expressed a. hope, that this case would bo a warning to tho Maori .people not to consult such an utter fraud. YOUNG MILITARY OBJECTORS. WILL "TOB THE MARK.'-' Dunedin, Septombof G. Four youths who were charged with having failed to comply with Uio Territorial regulations appeared in tho Police Court to-day, when it was reported that they had all agreed to "too tho mark," n) though* ono had been ra'tjier insolent over tho matter. All were convicted and discharged, the reluctant ono being severely cautioned. ENDOWMENTS. CANTERBURY COLLEGE AT LAW. Christchurch, September 6. .'The Supreme Court was occupied todny in hearing legal argument in the case Christchurch City Council v. Canterbury College Board of Governors, wherein a declaratory judgment is sought concerning the interpretation of certain provincial ordinances. Tho question at issuo is the right of the Canterbury Public Library to a share in tho revenues and endowments made forty years ago for tho museum, library, aud school of technical science at tho college. Tho board, which controls the. library, admits tho responsibility for the maintenance of a public library, and has supported tho present library out of endowments for over thirty years, but contends that it has power to establish another public library, under tho ordinances. ANTI-MILITARISTS AT IT. POM-POM THROWN IN RIVER. Christchurch, September 5. Recently local anti-militarists invited the City Council to remove from tho public gaze the "pom-pom" captured during the Bc-er war. ' The gun was displayed in Victoria Square, where it was fixed with bolts to a concrete bed. The council did not take any action. During last night the gun was removed from its position and thrown into tho river Avon.

TROUBLE IN A SCHOOL. Invercargill, September G. The Education Board to-day decided to ask the Middle School Committee, which resigned as a protest against the board's refusal to supply a copy of the finding of the commission of inquiry into ' a dispute between' the headmaster and the first assistant, to reconsider its decision. Tho board contended that the committee had acted hastily and injudiciously, poiiiting out that the inquiry had not been-held at the instance, of the committee. .

ILL-HEALTH. . . : Dunedin, September 6. About 2 p.m. on Wednesday, John Nicol, aged 27 years, left his parents' homo at Mornington ostensibly to go for a walk* No trace of him was found till Lib p.m. to-day, when ho was discovered by a brother, hanging from a raftev in a cellar below a.house in. a, very secluded spot. Deceased had been in ill-health for some time. HALF A MILLION ASKED. Auckland, September 6. A 6um of half a million is to bo asked for by the Auckland Railways League for expenditure upon provincial railways this year. TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. Auckland, September G. Information has been received by the police from Eaweua that, two Native children were drown in tho Whiriiiaki Hiver yesterday. Both were about three years of age. A constable has left to make inquiries., DRUIDS-DISHONEST OFFICER. Dannovirke, September 5. James P. Fliim was oharged before the Magistrate this morning with having appropriated to his own use the sum of JZW 18s. 10d., the property of the Runtime Lodge, No. 23, U.A.O.D. Ht> pleaded guilty-to tho shnrge. Tho police said it had been the duty of Flinn to pay all moneys received over, to the lodgo treasurer, or, in his absence, into the bank, lfo could not account for the way in which ho had spent the money. Inspector O'Donnovan said tho general character and honesty of accused was not good. Counsel for accused said Flinn had lapsed into dishonesty through indulging too freely in drink. Scores of men. in the town had helped ]iim to .spend his money. Lack of control over his generosity had put him in his present position. A sentence of three months' imprisonment with hard labour, was imposed.

MAORI'S OPERATION ON CHEQUES. Wairoa, September •G. At the Court to-day a half-caste Maori, Thomas Stone, was charged with, forging and uttering two cheques on the bank account-of one Whare Herehere, of Awaroa, at Teriuga. Accused took advantage of the fact that the other Maori could only read figures, and wrote the cheques himself for £W and. .£2, but put ,£29 and 10s. in'words and then altered tho figures to the larger amounts. Accused pleaded guilty, and w.ns committed for sentence. A TIME-SCARRED ANCIENT, Feilding, September 6. The death is reported, at Onepuhi, of Kerati, a Native reported to' bo over 100 years old. He was one of those shipped. A3 prisoners for Chatham Islands, and when tho ship was outside Wellington and his manacles taken off, jumped overboard and swam ashore. He escaped over tho Tararua ranges to Onepuhi and hid there for some' time. Up to the time of his death to was very robust, and was never ill. BUSH-FELLING FATALITY. Nelson, September 6. Information was received to-day stating that a lad named Fred Carlsson, 12 years of ago, was killed at Big Bush. It appears that his father and another man were bushfelling, and a limb fell on the boy striking his head and chest. He died' before ho could be "removed home. SCHOONER STRIKES REEF. Auckland, September 6. r The schooner Elfride, owned by .the D.H.P.Ct. Company, and recently overhauled at Auckland at a cost of JJISOO, wont on a reef at Nukualofa at night about a- fortnight ago. She bumped over several reefs, and sank in. a lagoon. The crew got ashore safely. Tho schooner was subsequently'got ashore in a battered condition. ' BRIEF MENTION. Gitbornc, September C. Walter Scott, aged 31, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a rnzor rt Waipiro Bay. Dunedin, September G. Iμ the Supreme Court to-day, a decree nisi was granted in the ense Reginald Smolley Cntfield v. Mary Augusta Cutfield, on (he ground of habitual drunkenness.