NEW ZEALAND.
(Per Press Association.) Oamaru, last night. The prosecutions in tho loci! Magistrates Court for 1905 show an increase of 53 over those fo-1901, the figure! beiog 299 and 246 nspec'.ivc-ly. In caso? oi diunkenross, the figiroi wero 188 and 177 respectively, an inverse of 11. Other increate! were ai follows : Sly grog sPli-ig 1904 rone, 1905 2; vagrancy 1994 8. 1905 7 ; foiging and uttering 1904 none, 1905 21 (two accuse!). This morning 11 Alf " Mil’er, an old offender, on two charges of using obscene languoge in a public plica, was sentenced to two months’ hard labo-. Dunedin, last night. Logie, a railway guard, was run over while shunting near Port Chalmers, sustaining injuries which are expeoted to (eiminate fatally. Ah You was fined £25 for having opium in his possession, suitable for smoking. Accused had been twioe previously convicted of a eimilar offence. A deputation from the Harbor Board and business people waited on Sir Joseph Ward to objeot to the taking of land at Peliobet Bay, the property of the Board, for railway sheds. The Min’ster promised to favorably consider tho selecting of a new site.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1641, 6 January 1906, Page 1
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