NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 160, 11 March 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

SUPREME COURT. BURGLARS SENTENCED, •] (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, This Day. In the Supreme Court Edgar Moore, for breaking and entering, was sentenced to one year and declared a habitual criminal. Norman Dryden on a similar charge received six months and ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for not more than three years. WELLINGTON STABBING CASE, WOMAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. WELLINGTON, This Day. Ellen Sullivan pleaded "guilty under provocation" to a charge of assaulting her mother by stabbing her in the neck. The mother gave evidence that her daughter had been a jgood Igirl up to the present trouble which was due to drink. Sullivan was committed for sentence.

A GREATER NAPIER. j SOUTH JOINS THE- OITY. NAPIER/ This Day. A poll taken on the question of Napier South merging with the Cjity resulted favourably by a three to one majority. Drainage was the operating factor in deciding the issue. ■ ii \.i NEW FREEZING WORKS. ERECTED AT KAKARIKI. MARTON, This Day. Word was received in Marten to-tday .from the Wellington Meat Export Co., stating that the company has purchased a site and is proceeding at once with the necessary steps to construct works at Kakariki. They expect to> start operations next week, so as to complete for next season's operations. A SENSATIONAL ENCOUNTER. WITH TWO BUEGLARS. ONE SHOT AND CAPTURED. AUCKLAND, This Day. Ernest Varley, grocer. Dominionroad, had a sensational eueounterwith two burglars at midnight. Varley, who had been sleeping on the premises since the previous attempt at burglary, was armed with a revolver and heard a till being opened in an adjoining shop. Shortly after he heard a key inserted into the lock of his own front door, which had been also fastened with a bolt. Varley slipped out of bed and released the bolt and two men entered. Varley stepped back into a corner behind the door, but in doing so knocked down some tins of jam. Immediately he covered tho burglars with his revolver, ordering them to put up their hands. He states that one of the burglars drew a revolver, whereupon lie (Varley) fired, shooting the man through the arm. Both burglars bolted, Varley following tliem across a vacant section. He captured the wounded mm, whom ho escorted to the police station, whore he was placed under arrest. The second burgler escaped. The name of the prisoner is Erie Street, aged 2S, a well-built man, six feet in height.

A PECULIAR CASE. AN EMPLOYEE'S EMPLOYEE. i WELLINGTON, This Day. A peculiar case, concerning a breach of the Grocers' Award, said to be the first of its kind, came before the Magistrate's Bourt to-day. An employee was charged with employing a boy under age as assistant-driver r without the knowledge of the original employer. Mr. Riddell, S.M., entered a conviction and imposed a penalty; of 10/-. .— | OUR WHEAT SUPPLY. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Board of Agriculture would like to remind farmers of the great necessity, In the interests of the Empire, that wheat areas should be largely augmented to ensure the crop of wheat in the coming season being sufficient to feed the people of New Zealand and leave enough for seed for the following season. At least 240,000 acres are reunsatisfactory yields the first season, during the present season has been 159.000 acres, so that 50,000 acres more are required to be sown in tho coming season to ensure sufficient for the Dominion's use. Less would probably mean that we should have t6*%iy outside and from other countries, possibly less favoured than ourselves. Aa restrictions as to price have been taken off by the Government there is every reason to think the price next season will be remunerative. Tha Board would also like to suggest that those who intend in sow wheat in tlio coming season should procure seed <.._. grown in the Dominion, as the import 4 j ed wheat requires considerable timo to acclimatise, and generally given unsatisfactory yieds the first season* The Board would 'caution farmers, however, that the above area should not be deducted from any area usefully devoted to oats. If this is done the oats and chaff grown will not foe -suf&V