CLIPPINGS FROM “THE CHRONICLE.”

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 7

CLIPPINGS FROM “THE CHRONICLE.”

October 9, 1897. — Some doubt has. j been expressed regarding the correctness of the statement made in these columns last week as to the running of .the express tnain between here and Auckland on November 1 instead of December 1 as formerly. We trust, however, that nothing will deter the department from instituting the express service a month earlier this year, as there are already indications cf the opening of the season. Last year the Town Board took this matter in* hand, and eommunicated with .the Railway Department in regard to the- same. Unfortunately, however, the application was not made until the time-table for November had been arranged. As the hoard meets again on Wednesday next w© trust that this j important matter will not he lost ' sight of . If it is the intention of the railway authorities to commence the service 1a month earlier the bcard's communication will do no harm, whereas if the statement made last week was premature it may do a deal of good. We ar& convinced that the railway offieials are imbifed with the desire to fall in with the wishes of the public in every practicahle manner.

October 9, 1897. — A Maori woman named Kiakurata was brought down from Te Whaiti on Wednesday last by Contable Lowry, having been sentenced to a month's imprisonment, with hard lahour, in 'Rotorua police gaol' for an '.assault on another native woman. The Justices who heard the case were Messrs. Wjylie and Wykes, whose appointments are of a comparatively recent date. It is difficult to understand how the woman is to do a month's hard lahour in Rotorua, unless Constable Murray is given authority to hire her out, say, on washing days. The services of male prisoners can ahvays be utilised here when sentenced to hard lahour, but in the case of women there is nothing for them to do. , It would be advisable for the department to issue instructicns to1 country Justices (for there must he many places in the colony situated precisely as we are) as to their procedure under such circumstances. The proper course for the Bench to have adopted in the present oase was to sentence the woman to Mount Eden gaol. She would then have been taken there at once. Now it will require a special order from the- Inspector of Prisons before she can be removed.