TELEGRAMS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 May 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET

Auckland, April 30,

Harry Ritchie Urquhart, a Quaker, was charged with causing the publication of a seditious pamphlet entitled MMen and Marbles," and was sentenced! to eleven months' imprisonment without hard labor. The magistrate said it was a case for internment, not punishment, but imprisonment was the onl'y internment in his power.

Ecluin Sawyers, printer, who admitted publishing the pamphlet, - was fined £25. WILL OF THIE LATE R. C. BRUCE I Wanganui, April 30. By the will of tho late R. C. Bruce, at one time a member of Parliament for Rangitikei, tho Dominion benefits by valuable bequests; After providing a number of personal legacies the late Mr Bruce made the following bequests £2000 to the Wanganui Hospital, £500 to the Wanganui Museum, £500 to the lona Girls' College, £200 to the missions in India of the Presbyterian Church', in-New Zealand, £500 to the Porirua 'Mental Hospital, and £500 to the Hunterville Domain. The whole of the residuary estate is to-be applied to afforestation or the making of domains or national parks in (New Zealand. The trustees are Sir Ifc- mas Mackenzie, Mr A. G. Simpson (Hunterville) and Mr F. F. Hockley (Te Aw am lit u.)

BREACHES OF WAR REGULATIONS Chritchurch, May }. The adyourued cases of breaches of the War Regulations Act against the managers of Lyttelton Times and Press were heard to-day before iMr Bailey, S.M. The former was charged with publishing information regarding the arrival of a steamer in Britain, and the latter with pubiishing similar information, also a picture of an overseas steamer at New Plymouth in the Weekly Press. The Magistrate fined the Times manager £1 and costs 'and imposed a similar fine on the manager of the Press on the first information. The Magistrate said that the publication in the Weekly Press was a more serious breaeh audi the penalty in that instance would be £3 and costs.