TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3766, 18 May 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Napier, May 17. Thomas Peddle, a settler, appeared in Court to-day on a charge of assaulting Mr Cutten, S. M., in the execution of his duty as sheriff. Peddle some time ago agreed to sell his station to Oswald Orr, but later repudiated the agreement. Orr took the case to the Supreme Court, where judgment went iu his favour. Peddle went to the Appeal Court, but again lost. Yesterday Cutten went up with a party of Constables to execute an order of ejectment, but Peddle resented the intrusion of the law, and struck Cutten a violent blow on the bridge of the nose. Peddle was remanded. The offices of the Napier Fish Supply Co, at the port were burglarously entered on Tuesday night, and one of the safes (which fortunately contained nothing) was carried bodily away. Yesterday morning the safe was found in a battered condition in a lagoon, and later the police arrested William Brock and Charles John. Bartlett on a charge of being concerned in the robbery. Accused were before the Court to-day, and were remanded. The Governor arrived by express train last night and left by special coach this morning for Wairoa, en route to Gisborne. Auckland, May 17. Albert Edward Wright, a butcher, was charged at Paeroa with having fed pigs with raw offal. The evidence was to the effect that two inspectors visited the defendant’s property on March 15th and found a number of pigs feeding on raw offal. There was also a dead pig and a dead dog in the pig yard. The defence was that the offal was carried into the pig yard by ducks. Defendant denied ever having fed pigs on raw offal, but admitted a previous conviction for a similar offence. He was fined £5 and costs. A sad accident occurred on Thursday morning. Burke, a bushman, was struck on the head by a falling limb of a tree, sustaining a fractured jaw. Death, caused by hemorrhage, occurred four hours later. Feilding, May 17. The Feilding Borough Council nominated the Mayor (Mr Trewin), Cr. Tolley, and Mr Fred Pirani as their representatives on the Fire Brigade Board established under the new Act. Masterton, May 17. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Mr W. P. James imposed the maximum penalty of ,£lO with costs 7s on a man for procuring liquor for his sister, a prohibited person. Auckland, May 17. A fatal accident occurred at Mamuku this morning. Burke, a bushman, was struck on the head by a falling limb of a tree, having his jaw fractured. Death occurred four hours later. . Dunedin, May 17. At a meeting of school teachers and others to-day, it was resolved to celebrate Empire Day by assembling the school cadets and boys of the Fourth Standard and upwards at the Triangle to salute the flag and listen to addresses by the Empire League.