NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

— ♦ IFEH VBEBS ASSOCIATION .1 Auckland, April 6. The library which the late Porfessor Pood has bequeathed to the Auckland University College is a very valuable one and if the books had to be purchased would represent from £750 to £1000. It contains a fine collection of English classics of all periode. Pteps are being taken to suitably house and catalogue the library. A Hungarian named Alfred Brooks wax fined Is and costs £1 16s, for a breach of the law in not registering bis factory. A second charge of employing females ou Saturday afternoons was withdrawn Defendant, who recently arrived from Victoria, pleaded ignorance of the law. After three days trial the brothers Sherin, Bussian or Polish Jows wore

brought l , £>ruilt) of conspiracy to defraud sundry Auckland merchants, and sen ten* ced to six months imprisonment each. This is what is known as the " Long firm " j case. The merchants were, Me Arthur ■ & Co, Trenwith, boot manufacturers, and Oram, warehouseman. When sentenced two of the brothers broke down. The third said " Thank you, your Honour," apparently satisfied with the sentence. Donedin, This Day. It is understood a majority of delegates of the Otago Rugby Union will vote for affiliation, in which case nearly the whole of the outgoing committee will refuse to accept office. Tho bull of the Grecian Bend, lost off Napier, was insured in the National office for .£BOO.