NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1743, 7 May 1913, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—?rew Association.) I ■ « THE MUNICIPAL WHISKY. Napier, May G. John Donald M'Quarrie was before the Court to-day on a charge of "stealing ten gallons of wliisky from the Mayor and councillors of InvercArgill." Prisoner was remanded to Invercargill. 6 SPECIALIST IN THEFTS. Napier, May 6. Arthur Doughty, (described by the police as a "noted coatl thief," was sentenced to three years' reformative treatment for theft of two overcoats. The police record showed that the 'prisoner had served eleven sentences for theft and false pretences.

LIQUOR IN A PA. Rotorua, May 6. Wharctutaki, a Maori, was to-day fined JC2S and costs .£3 Is. on each of two charges of supplying liquor to Native women in the pa at Ohinemutu. For taking liquor into the pa ho was fined £1 and costs lis. Gd. FRENCH & NEW HEBRIDES. Auckland, May 6. The Rev. F. Paton, a leading worker of the Presbyterian Mission, is a passenger by the Marama, bound for Sydney. Interviewed by a press representative hfl said that during his visit to England ho waited on the Colonial. Office officials and discussed the question of tho government, of tho New Hebrides Islands. The French authorities were as keen as England in preserving their interests. These islands knew that a dual Government was rotten. Australia and New Zealand wero seriously concerned in tho inaction of tho French in not keeping down the Japanese influx. By using these islands colcured races could swoop on New Zealand. It hnd been seriously suggested that if tho French settlers were bought out for about it would bo the cheapest form of insurance for New Zealand and Australia. • ' AN INFANTILE "JOY RIDE." Palmerston N., May 6. The fascination of joy rides hus reached to tho primer classes. Two Faliuerstou youngsters, not over six years of age, slipped slyly to precarious seats on the at tho rear of the guard's van of the Woodville train this afternoon, bent on a joy ride, and the train proceeded at its ordinary pace through Palmerston .Square, where two serene youug faces returned townfolks' looks of horror with easy unconcern. As tho train's speed quickened, their hold of the world nppeored (o grow unsteady, and shortly before reaching ,Terrace_ two miles out, they tumbled off in unison, rolled over like two rubber balls, and struggled to their little legs, and ran home for their lives, PRISONERS AT LARGE. Palmerston, May G. Tho polico have not yet succeeded in finding tho two gaol escapees, Groves and Fail-ley. _________