DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2214, 11 June 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(Press Association.) PALMERSTON N.,. June 10. The criminal sessions of tihe_ Supremo Court concluded to-day, before Mr. Justice Cooper. Geo. SV. Taylor was acquitted on a charge of criminal assault on a girl. His Honor said the case .was almost unique, and presented many extraordinary features. The girl’s story, which was of a revolting nature, was quite unsubstantiated by the medical testimony. The case of Essex v. Hoben, in which the .proprietor of the “Ylanawatu Times” is sued for £5Ol damages for allegd libel in connection with the recent Mayoral election, comes up for hearing to-morrow. 4VELLINGTON, June 10.

The following is Captain Edwin’s forecast to 3 p.m. to-morrow : Moderate southerly winds, with slo-wly rising barometer, northward of Napier and Wanganui; moderate to strong northerly winds, with falling barometer, elsewhere, and fine weather. At the 51agistrate’s'-Coiut to-day Ellon Johnson, a young married .woman, was committed for trial on a charge of -using an illegal instrument-, with intent. Arthur Nankivciff, a youth, was committed for trial on charges of carnally knowing -a. girl under sixteen years of age, attempting to carnally know a girl under sixteen years of age, and indecent assault.

CHRISTCHURCH, June 10i •William Bell, the prisoner who ran ■aiway from Lyttelton Gaol on Sunday l ist, hut was recaptured after-a. short run, was brought up before Air. H. W. Bishop, S.M., in the Magistrate’s room at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court this morning, and charged' with having attempted to escape from legal custody. On the usual question being put to him as to whether he would. lie tried in the Magistrate’s Court, he replied tha ho wished to he tried by, a jury. Mr. Bishop asked the Gaoler .(Mr. Cleary) if there had been anything in the man’s conduct recently to lead him to think that Bell was, insane. Mr. Cleary replied that the man’s conduct had been somewhat peculiar. iHe had been sentenced to three months’, imprisonment on two charges, the sentences to be cumulative. Mr. Bishop ordered the accused to be remanded sine die in order to . have him further examined as to his mental condition. The place on the roof of the Lyttelton Gaol where the prisoner Bell recently climbed over has been protected by interlacing the railings with barbed wire so as to prevent any future aittcniiot of the kind. T'lie Education Board deckled this morning that persons such as railway employees living in huts not on wheels for which they paid rent were householders for the purpose® of school committee elections, and were entitled' to vote.' .... Air. A. Calcott, chief clerk in the Christchurch office oif the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed receiver 0 f revenue and imprestee for the Christchurch branch. At the meeting of the Education Board to-day Air. William Brock, ALA,, for the past four years headmaster at Richmond, was 'appointed additional inspector to the Board. Air Brock, who is of age, has had thirty-two years’ experience as a teacher. iHe was at £Dainstead- for eleispn years, Sydenham (assistant) nine yeans, Lobr.rn three years, and Saltwiter Creek two years- There wore thirteen applicants for tile posi-) tion.' AfASTERTON, June iO At the annual meeting of the licensing Bench held to-day the police report on.several hotels were unfavorable, but in no cases were licenses refused. The-applications of three licensees wore, however, adjourned for three months to enable the licensees to dispose of their interests, and one to give the licensee on oppnrtunk.v to improve the management of his premises. The ten o’clock closing of hotels in all parts of the dis-trk-t was carried.' The supplying of methylated spirits to prohibited personswas a matter upon which the Chairman of the Alafttei-ton Licensing Bench (Air.- W. L. James) made some pertinent remarks at tile close oi the sitting today. He said there were two persons subject to prohibition orders, both persons of good local standing, who made ;i practice of satisfying their craving for drink with methyl'ated spirits. He thought that chemists and storekeepers should, when they noticed customers frequently purchasing quaii-titie-s of spirits, know that such pew ops were using the spirits for drinking purposes. The Committee felt the matter had only to he drawn attention to, and in the future methylated spirits would not he so readily available to prohibited persons.