NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 19 May 1915, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT. A SALUTARY SENTENCE. Press Associat ion—Copyright. AUCKLAND, This Day. At the Supreme Court, George Alexander Powell, on a charge of indecent assault on a girl of 15$ years of age, was sentenced to five years' hard labour. ATTACKS ON GERMAN FIRMS. maimmS i i i WELLINGTON RUMOUR3 PROVE FALSE. ?ul JLCB ARRANGEMENTS PROVE EFFECTIVE. WELLINGTON, May IT. Rumours were current yesterday afteikoon that tjhe busin3ss premises, of Gernan residents in the cit' would be. the objects of demonstnti) i s ro-uig'ut crowds collect al in one rr two localities where .'Designers ua\e siions, but nothing untowar.i occurred. It fi though aufiD-iacs are recent on tihs point, that th 3 police hai rr.f c?e 'special dispositions •<; (k-iU with any trouble, should it arise. About eleven o'clock a bottle was thrown through a window in the office of Messrs Castindyk and Focke, in Harris Street, but no one saw the deed done. Mr Focke was until the outbreak of war German Consul in Wellington.

BIG POLL TAX ADVOCATED. MUCH NEEDED RESTRICTION ON "UNDESIRABLES." CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. A crowded meeting was held at the City Council Chambers to-night, when it was decided to urge the Government to prohibit absolutely the importations cf any goods from .Germany, Austria, and Turkey; also that if Germans are to be admitted to New Zealand in the future they should only come in under ,a heavy poll tax, say £SOO. The meet!rv<r was of fi r'cst patriotic character ->.nd the resolutions were carried unan-:-,.-,c 1 a deputation' was appointed 'o place the resolutions before the Hon. Herries, as representative of the Government, who wlil be in town tomorrow.