NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 60, 8 September 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ I Per Press Association! Auckland. September 7. The police raided Te Kuiti on Monday morning. After travelling nil night from Cambridge tbev surprised the res dents and seized a large quantity of liquor. A wag- | gon loaded with deirrjohns, whifkey, etc., | was driven to Hamilton. A targe nuui ber of prosecutions will follow. A voimg man named Charles West, alias White, was sentenced to three yonrx' imprisonment at the Supreme Court to-day for theft from the person of a fanner, an elderly man, in (Jucen street, at 10 o'clock at mj^ht. iliw Honor says he was determined to make ftn example in such otYences. Further whiskey raids aro contemp lated by the police in the King ConntryThe Pahi Hotel, E Moriarty, licensee, was burned down this moruing. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building was insured in the South British. CHRisTcnuRCH, Sept. 7. Franklin, a bookmaker, whs fined £5 to-day for paying toialisator odds at the Grand National Meeting. Wellington. Sept. 7. In the Supreme Court to day, JGeorge Catchpole. charged with icdeceutly as saulting youug was ac(mittcd. A boy uaaied Itoy King, nged three years, was killed while swinging on a gate at Kaiwarr a with other children. He fell off and his head was jammed between the gate and post. He died in a few minutes.