TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 442, 26 November 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Invercargill, November 23

The case in which David Cochrane is charged with having committed perjury in connection with the case of Watson Bros., and - the Southland Frozen Meat Company continued all day. The case for the Crown was unfinished when the Court rose for the day. Wellington, Nov. 23.

The Executive of the National Dairy Association has passed a resolution protesting against the registration fees proposed to be charged under the Dairy Regulations, and asks that the maximum fee should not be more than 5s for over 20 cows, nor more than 2s 6d lor under 20 cows; and further asks that provision should be made for a Board of Appeal, consisting of one person nominated by the chief inspector of stock, and one person nominated by the dairymen, and that any dairyman should have the right to appeal to such arbitrators on any matter arising out of the regulations. At the Supreme Court to-day James Reid was found guilty of stealing various articles, including a watch and chain. Sentence was deferred. Maurice Daniel Paulmeir, charged with indecently assaulting a girl, was found not guilty. John Butler was charged with assaulting Anton Larsen, but the jury disagreed, and Butler is to be tried again, A tramway conductor named William Levers, a married man, aged 28 years, was caught between two cars at the Newtown sheds this afternoon, and had his right leg so severely crushed that it had to be amputated at the thigh. Dunedin, Nov. 23.

The criminal sitting of tne Supreme Court opened this. morning, Mr Justice Williams, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said the cases were more numerous and of a more serious nature than usual. They included attempted murder, assault on a little girl, and a curious case of alleged ill-treatment of a young girl by her married sister.

Percy Johnston, aged xB, pleaded guilty to a serious assault on a girl. The police gave him a bad character. The Judge declined to order a flogging, as he was of opinion that a long sentence without flogging preferable to a short sentence with flogging. It was better, too, for society that persons convicted of such crimes should be kept away for as long a period as possible. Prisoner was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment with hard abour.