NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 269, 13 August 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

BREACH OF LIQUOR LAWS. A FINE OF £SO DUNEDIN, Thursday. A<jt to-day James Jar--vi e was fined £SO and costs (£2 2/) for keeping liquor for sale ia a no-li-cense district. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY WELLINGTON, This Day. At th e Supreme,-Court, the jury disagreed in the cas e of James Hallai'l, charged with conspiring with some unknown person to defraud one Philip Byrne,, of Wellington of various sums of (money., In openig )be case for the prosecution, Mr Meredith said the charge was one of defrauding a book- J maker by means of a bogus telegram. | Th e most serious phase of the case was that the evidence would show that there must have been an accomplice in the telegraph office in Wellington. It had been impossible to trace j who that accomplicewas, and the result was that suspicion re,sted on a gTeat many people. In the present cas e no telegram had been sent from Greymouth, yet messages purporting to come from Greymouth were found n Byrne's letter-box at Wellington post office. he defence is a denial of knowledge of anything about the tele- I grapi in question. Anew trial was ordered for next Monday. i

A THRILLING INCIDENT. ON BOARD HOSPITAL SHIP CHASED BY A SUBMARINE TWO PARSONS IN ONE CABIN A LIFE BELT QUARREL HOW IT WAS SETTLED. WELLINGTON, This Day Chaplain Captain Blamires, in a letter describes an exciting experience with a submarine] while aboard a transport hospital ship between the Dardanelles and Alexandria A periscope was sighted about four miles away, when the; steamer at once turned tail and the stokers and flymen doubled their energies, but the, vessel was old and could only attain thirteen knots. Gradually the submarine drew until wihen almost within striking distance, .she mysteriously dropped astern and disappeared. Every preparation had been made aboard the transport. The Rev. Blamires shared a cabin with.the Re v - Father. Richards. was but one life-belt, and each wanted the other to wear it. They became so insistent that they finally quarrelled, and the dispute was settled only by handing the life-belt to a sergeantmajor.

COMFORT FOR THE BEREAVED. MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER. WELLINGTON, August 1. Refering to the heavy casualty list this morning, the Prime Minister (the Hon. Right Hon. W. F. Massey) spoke feelingly of the number who have apparently fallen. "The lives of many of our brave men, such as those whose names are mentioned in the list of casualties this morning," he said, "is part of the price of Empire which we are being called upon to pay. The State again mourns for its dead, for those who have given their lives on behalf of their fel-low-citizens, and for the honour of the nation, and our hearts go out in sympathy to the relatives and friends of of those who have fallen, to the widows and orphans, to the parents and sisters and brothers of the gallant soldiers avlio died for Britain's sake, and whose remains lie to-day in the graves of their comrades' making on the bleak hillsides of the Gallipoli Peninsula, far from home and friends it may be, but never to be forgotten by the people of this country. It is for us who are left behind not only in this country, but in the other Dominions of the Empire, to see that the great undertaking in which our men lost their lives is carried through to a satisfactory ending, so that the sacrifices which have been made shall not have been made in vain." • . • .