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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42774, 5 September 1905, Page 2

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[by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION j ~ Auckland, This Day. William Cowan, for the theft., of £127 from the .Telegraph Department, was sentenceo to twelve months imprisonment. In passing sentence, Judge Edwards took into account the accused’s good character, and the great temptations, which surrounded him, and the laxity of supervision exercised over him. Judge Edwards said the crime was due to the* prisoner’s surroundings, and spoke of the “ tote ’’ as a BOcietyi' \Mh iyaS a legalised machine that enabled the. public to gamble all the year round, every day and all day, and meetings were multiplied simply for the sake of the, gains derived ifrom the instrument. He also spoke of the Club as carrying, on a legal business, if an immoraj business.

Wm Page, single, 28, whilebacking a wagon into wharf shed, was struck in the abdomen by one of.; the shafts and>severely ; injured. , He jdied in the hospital. I Dunedin, This Day. A number 'of Chinamen,.,, charged with breaches of the opium laws, were fined from 20s to 65, , Ixvercargil, This Day. S In connection with the Gore .sheepstealing casek, a well-known resident; John McKenna, about 45, .was given till noon to-day; to explain certaib facts. The police found him ehot dead. He was married, with a y >ung family. Wellington, This Day.: After the meeting of the Executive, the Government, by command of the King, invested Mr’ Heywo >d and Mi Gray respectively as secretaries of the Treasury and Post Office, vrith the Imperial Service Order. His Excellency referred to the face that this order was only bestowed on these who had served their country long and well. ,V V:.. 1