NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 154, 4 March 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

ROTTMAN’S DEATH SENTENCE. CONFIRMED BY CABINET. EXECUTED NEXT MONDAY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At a meeting held yesterday, Cabinet confirmed the death sentence passed on Arthur Rottman, at the Wanganui Supreme Court, for the murder of the McCann family at Ruahine. Lie is to be executed at 8 o’clock next Monday morning at The Terrace Gaol, Wellington. COMMANDEERED MEAT. i THE PRICES PAID. WELLINGTON, This Day, In connection with the arrangement under which all meat is exported from New Zealand goes to the Imperial Government for the use of troops. Mr Massey states the following is th,a schedule of prices: Beef: Maximum prime ox 43d; second and heifer beef 4id; cow beef, first quality 41d; second quality, 4d; boneless beef, sdi. Mutton: First quality wethers 41d; second quality, 4}d; maiden ewes, same price as wethers; ewes, first quality, 4d; second quality S.td,

Lamb: Special prime and Canterbury quality, under 32Ibs, 5 5-Sd first quality, s£d; second quality 5Jd. Special allowance is being made by way of payment for storage and other incidental expenses on account of meat which has been in the freezing works prior to March Ist.

POLITICAL. PETITION AGAINST TAU HENARE, WHANGAREI, This Day. The trial of the petition lodged by Nau Paracne Kawiti, Whangarei, and Naero Nuao, cf Kaikohe, against the return of Tau Tenare as M.P. for the Northern Maori Electoral District was opened at Whangarei to-day, before Justices llasking and Stringer. Mr Prendergast, for the petitioners, asked that four items in the petition alleging that voting papers were not issued and that electors entered the polling place more than one at a time might be withdrawn. No objection was raised except by Mr Blomfield for the Returning Officer respecting costs. Mr Prenderigast called evidence to shew that thirty voters turned up at KaraKanui on election day, but no returning officer had arrived; also that had a polling booth been provided 56 people would have voted at Wikiriwheri. Hemana said he was the chief man at Karakanui. He made attempts to obtain a Deputy Returning Officer without avail. It was too late then, to go to any other booth. Only nine voted at Karakanui in the 1911 election because nearly all went to a wedding at Port Albert, Other witnesses corroborated the latter states irient. ;

TWO GIRLS IN CUSTODY. ALLEGED ROBBERY FROM HOTEL, WELLINGTON, This Day. Dorothy Sccullar, otherwise Soiitar* and Lesley Reid were committed for trial on a charge of stealing £l4l 5/ from the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel on February 16th. It was stated that £53 13/8 had been recovered, . tha balance being spent. The girls were arrested at Woodville; They afterwards confessed to the police. ANOTHER FIRE. l AT NAPIER FREEZING WORKS. ' NAPIER, This Day. The North British Freezing Works was the scene of another fire early his morning. The outbreak started in the offices and spread to the free;er. The former were totally destroyed, and the latter so seriously: damaged that it will need re-building. About 13,000 carcases of mutton were destroyed. Fortunately, a light easter, ly breeze was blowing, otherwise th Q whole of the structures might have been razed. ,

A FATAL FIRE, ] A NELSON HOTEL BURNED. ' NELSON, This Day. The Royal Hotel, a wooden buiMlng, iip* Bridge Street, owned by Dodson .and Son, and occu* pied by E. Gann, the licensee, was gutted early this morning. The flames in. the b ack Portion spread rapidly* Some of the inmates only had time to escape. Later on a boarder named Frederick Bloomfield, Sged -'57 r a na.tive of Australia, was missing. - His charrhd' remains .were found oil tips floor joists. The insurance on the hotel is £6O0 4 HUMPTY pUMRTY COMPANY. i RAISE £l6O FOR BELGIAN!. }. ;v- y.- ~ ; , NEW PLYMOUTH, This .La y. By a street collection and sale f 4 Belgian flags yesterday. Stephen; Humpty Dumpty Company raised A I >3 for the .Belgian Relief Fund,