NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telograjh.—Press Association.) ) ♦— ' TIMARU ITEMS. Timaru, November ID. At a meeting of ladies iyesterday afternoon, it was decided to form a local association of the Maori Girls' College at Ohpka <Ivaiapoi). It ii? stated that'lß jjirls thoro arc now. preparing for various occupations. Tho Timaru Borough Council has been for sonio hmo collecting information retarding trams and buses, and at present seem inclined to look favourably on steam buses. It/has agreed that" as many as passible should visit Dunedin io £ ee tho Mornington. steam, buses at work. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher", Minister for Marme, arrived this morning and was shown the harbour and fishing..facilities by Mr. J. Crnigie, M.P. Ete goes to Oamaru to-aiiorrow. SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK. Blenheim, November 19, Tho Marlborough Land and Railway Leajrue has passed a resolution protesting on behalf of tho people of- Marlborough at the cessation, of work on tho South Island Main Trunk. AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS. '. Auckland, November 19. In the Supreme Court Nellie Ennvlyoe Chrisham, aged thirty, was sentenced to four years' reformative' treatment for bigamy. Edwin Foulds, for breaking and entering at Hamilton, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour and three years' reformative treatment. William Frederick Murray, aged nineteen, and Sydney Piner, aged twenty, for bag-<matching and hotel thefts, were sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and declared habitual criminals. Wilfred Augustus Hicks, who forged a cheque at Gisborne, was admitted, to probation for three years, a. condition of release being that ho refrains from betting and attending races. •Edgar Lansing Huston, alias David Lansing Huston, who twice escaped from custody, was sentenced to. sii months' imprisonment on each of two charges of escaping from custody, tho sentences to bo concurrent. On each of two charas of breaking and entering • whift at r larga, Huston was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, the sentences to: be concurrent, and also declared a habitual criminal. • •• THE .CANADIAN CADETS. - Auckland, November 19. The. Canadian cadets: rare given a reception in the Town Hall to-day. The Canadian Trade Commissioner, the Mayor of Auckland, and Colonel Lo»an 'were amongst the speakers. Tho caacts subsequently in the Domain with tho Auckland cadet companies. KING MAHUTA'S TANGI. ' ; '■ Auckland,' November 19. A'nother large contingent of Natives arrived at the tangi over Mahuta. at Waahi to-day, 1 - most of them being from Hawko's Bay and the south. Among them were Sir James and Lady. Carroll. Nothing definite as'to the funeral of Mahuta, and "coronation" has been decided, but. matters will bo disoussed on Thursday and a definite plan formulated. "NAPIER HARBOUR. Napier, November. 19. The proposed harbour scheme for Napier was advanced a further stage to-day, when the Harbour Board unanimously decided to..approve of Messrs. Cullen and Keelo's (Australian engineers) report in regard to the inner harbour. The engineers submitted alternative proposals for imior and breakwater harbour "schemes, and. left the.board.to decide; ' The engineers, howiever, will be asked to express a definite opinion as to which 'scheme they recommend the board to adopt.