INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10067, 8 February 1909, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(Fiat Association.) WELLINGTONFebruary o. . \urman, who last week found -"i assaulting Alexander Armstrong, 1 "-'" to-dav sentenced to three imprisonment. Mr Justice Cooper ■ VCa ] h- iuwn.Ud t r > ask that a tormal inS airy be irUO the P rtsoner s racn "tiTTiunekai left on Saturday night . 1 t i„. uhathairi Islands to search foi £ Uio I°°S overdue ► liiTrcliii from Kaipara. at v i.r'dav the police raided two places • Tu-.-in'iki and Frederick streets and m i i i lar'tt quantity of beer. In one s ® c ' i' of men were found who, gh the ot " teth P loccS > WUI report of the Chief Fibre ,• t sh.uv- a serious decline in the 'f hemp produced. In. .Jannary 2-9- IviW were graded, as compared "with bill's t' ,r the corresponding month ~~r For the twelve months ending n , Warv, 19C9. the grading amounted 10 -hTo' 55.414 bales. Tlie report states XT the millers are despondent at the mdook. and that a good many w-tll close down, if a further fall in price occurs. DOC E DIN. Februarv 8. , Ibituary —James M-liill, of the tin:, of JL'lJili and Thomson, ex-president of the Mister Builders Association. " Two laden trucks got away m som unaplained manner from the Lavershain station, came down the incline on the lint It a tremendous pace, and ran [hinedin station at abont- twenty nfcaUmr. The guard (Stevens), who ln,l tat bc'iuaht the morning train trom Clinton m. plnckily jumped on the trucks ant succeeded in lowering the brakta. iFottanately no damage was done. CHKISTCHt'RCH. February 8. The Supreme Court calendar Is verv liulit Kobert Carlyie, tor ..breaking and I entering and theft, received three years. hart 'abor. an vvas declared to be ail I habitual criminal. r VII, « r . t Walker and I Waiter Won. for breaking and enterI imr [»'eiv<d three months' without hard I lab'.r." John Brown, for breaking and enI twine two vears* hard labor. ili'ina?. M.P.,'and Mr Scott, who ' repiraaitei'the Selwya County Council oit the Ifcirbn' B*jard, were to-day deposed oil account of their strong support to the ami scheme, and representatives opposed to tie canal were appointed in their jiaca. AUCK.LAXD. February 8. lrtor;v Taylor, a tram conductor, was hackuw his car at a stopping place on a smite r>f rails to allow another to pass aj'. l w;is teanxnz over the bade of tlw car pulling dowti the trolley pole when thi' broke. Taylor fell on the raid, wtoinins terriM.- injuries to his head, apparently involving the fracture ot the base "f his fkull. The Supreme Court criminal 6escorts npcn«l tiwlay. Judge Kdwards i.'ommentf«i ou the e'ntir' absence of criminal assaults un -iti- trom calendar, and laid it was"ol>vi--is that the grand jury £ reennimendation f<ir the use of the J«sh an»l the invinir effect to their recoromendatiur. at !:ut sitting of the Court had had the desirtii eitett. Arnrft i:;ive ;i splenilicl exhibition oa Saturday "afternoon between. Pine and RrJiri B>mt a- mile and a-half-For the greater part ot* the course he kept eTi?n with a four-oar crew by which he putjetL tinilly shoot in z ahead of the four-*jar in a matmificent spurt. Arnst stot<» that thf atretch ot water rowed over un Saturday L> good as the I'arraraatta course, and an ideal championship tours**. Ife created an impression that it* lit? retains the rhampionship after his races abroad Ik will stipulate that the next match hj- rowed in Auckland. FKtLDING. February* 8. Harden, nrer sixty yean* of wa* driving home t'rum church near Stanway Ut niiht with his wife when the horse shield ac a furniture van and threw nut Ebii.^n. whvt-e iwck was broken. He leaves a wife ap>l a jrrown-up family. NAPIER. February 8. Tile- balance-ehoet of the Napier C*as Company to the annual marine and showed «i profit -of £6TC6 4d. An interim dividend *»va.s paid or. June 50. aorl the directop reconiineti«l a further dividend amonntinj £5746: t!ut £I2OO l>e credited to the fand and £1760 carried forward. The chairman's, report stated that in order to eoj* with the increased demand a new holder oc 160,000 cubic feet- capacity was beiiu- fr«-cted at Hastings and one of 115.0C0 rapacitv at Port Ahtiriri. Xha wißaiimption. showed an ir.crvase of 13; evn.r. over 1907. In order to pr"vUt» funds tor improvements the I>oard is caiUm: up pair of the capital, i T!>* <i{ Kirkcaidie and Stains finr.i £t today for failing to affix I 1 iabt'l t-> certain articles to show that I ftey had f« t :i made at an unregistered I heb)ty. Tht- defen*lant stated l.hat_ he I ia i_-n'H*anoe. the goods being given I to niake at home and double I izion rate of wages had t>een. paid. | Jsirm h;ul n-> desire to evade the law. [ «eaiacistra:e ss-iid the Act was framed I r,> .preTr;n: puv.iting ami. although there ***-« of that evil in the pre- ' civ. a tin?- nuiat l-e impoeet!. STRATFORD. February S. nian Lang, a recent froir, was drowned whilst oarliing ;n th-.> Ktiiakoma yesterday afterTr.- 1 l-ody wn-s recovered at 7 odoi-ic th: 6 n:orninc. An inquest is pro ce^iirrc. MASTKKTON. February 8. '-Sfirdiy <*ne of the instruments i ;i >p*\k of radium was stolen I i tab.*- near the stage. It is boI Ve, | that it was picked up in the darkI hv on leaving the hall.