Telegraphic.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43094, 18 May 1907, Page 2

Telegraphic.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

MASTERTON, This Day. A man was fined £lO and costs, the maximum penalty, for procuring liquor for his sister, a prohibited person. NAPIER, This Day. Thos. Peddle, settler, was before the Court to-day on a charge of assaulting Mr Cutter, S.M. The latter with a number of constables, went up to defendant’s station to execute an order of ejectment, following on the lawsuit which Peddle had lost and it was alleged he was struck by Peddle in the face. Peddle was remanded.

The safe taken out of the Fish Supply Company’s office at Port Ahuriri was found in a battered condition in the lagoon. It fortunately had contained nothing. Two men named Brock and Bartlett have been arrested in connection with the affair AUCKLAND, This Day-

The prompt steps taken by the District Health Officer appears to hare had satisfactory results as no further cases of acute septicaemia have been reported; the greatest care being exercised as soon as the first case was discovered. Men were sent out to Point Chevalier to get an isolation hospital ready in case of extra accommodation being required for patients. DUNEDIN, Thiß Day.

The annual education report shows a decrease in the attendance for 1906, which was lower than any year since 1683. It was due largely to an epidemic of measles. An opinion was expressed that the present age limit for free places in the secondary schools is mischievious in its results, and inspectors also complain of the schools being inadequately staffed. “WELLINGTON, This Day.

At the Magistrates court, John McNeil alias McDougall, on a charge of false pretences, was sentenced to six months imprisonment, and ordered to be taken before the Supreme Court to be dealt with as a habitual criminal.