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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 288, 9 December 1904, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) THAMES, Dec. 8. Rose Maud Williams, aged 15, a daughter of Thomas Williams, a farmer near the Thames, was returning from school with her companions, and wenit to bathe In the Kauuxa-anga Stream. She got out of bar depth, and was drowned before assistance was available.

An electric lighting plant and the X raysi have been installed in the Thames hospital. DUNEDIN, Dec. 8.

At the Police Court to-day George A. Neill, a boardinghouse keeper ait Port Ohialmers, was chorgod with keeping li(qiuor for sale in a iio-li<X'nse district. Tho premises, which were formerly the Provincial Hotel, were raided by tho police on Novomber 19th, when considerable quantities of beer, wine, spirits, etc., weu'e found. Mr A. Hanlon, for the defence, raised the point that prohibition had not been duly determined in the district. An appeal was now before the Privy Council, and if a conviction was recorded he wanted to be in- * a position to move to have it quashed if the appeal case went in the direction he thought it would. He would show that, except the beer, all the liguor had been to the house for a considerable time—some of it before Neill want into the 'house. The police had failed' to find any evidence of a sale, and when the raid was made had to wait until Neill returned from Dunedin, where ho went daily on business, to get tho key to get into the bar. After hearing evidence, Mr C. C. Graham, S.M., said the evidence of the defendant was not satisfactory, having been given in a hesitating aaid prevaricating, manner. He would inflict a fine of £5 and £2 19s costs. The ratepayers of Lawrence rejected a proposal to borrow the sum of £SOOO for electric lighting and electricity for lighting and motive power. The polling was—For proposal, 42 ; against, 105. The- Home for Aged Poor was formally opened to-day at Anderson's Bay by Bishop Verdon. It is to be conducted by the Little sisters of the Poor, six of whom arrived a few days ago. Funds were collected by Miss Mulholland, and the property purchased by Bishop verdon. At present a mug for women only is opened. At a meeting of the Catlins Railway League a motion was cavried that ;n view of the dearth of employment amongst settlers in the dis net owing to the denial for builihng timber the Cabinet be urged trk oTZ PUt inha,Ki on the section recently aur -