LATEST. TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 July 1907, Page 2

LATEST. TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association.

Tauranga, July 10. . Kichard Harland, charged with carnally knowing his niece, under 18 years of age, was committed for trial at the Auckland .Supreme Court, bail being allowed, self in .£2OO and two sureties ot .tlli!) each.

Auckland, July 10. At a representative meeting hejd at Kawliia, over twenty settlers attended to discuss the matter of iv shipping proposal from an Auckland firm to start running a boat on (he co-operative pria ciplc, the firm putting in £320 if guaranteed a share of the triHlc. The proposal was not entertained. A prominent settler said that while, in Wellington recently he was, promised by a firm there

that they would send a boat fortnightly to deliver cargo at 15s per ton. The settlers were strongly in favor of supporting this proposaT, all agreeing that they could buy cheaper and sell better at Wellington. One speaker (Mr Mackenzie) referred to Auckland's lack of enterprise, remarking that Auckland people bad not sufficient pluck or enterprise. A committee of settlers volunteered to canvass the district, and get support for the boat.

Auckland, July 10. The wife of James McNeil, a tinsmith, residing at St. Helier's Hay, applied today for a separation order, the grounds being that be had become too dangerous to live with. According to the wife's story, McNeil had become possessed of strange and fearsome fancies, one of the most abiding being the conviction that every room in the house had a phonograph in it. He also went in for a quantity of dumb play, suggestive of gruesome happenings, n favorite gesture be ing a phantominic performance of cutting her tongue, occasionally substituting her throat as the field of operation. Three I weeks ago she had been obliged to flee the bouse, and take up her abode with her father. She was making application on medical advice. Mr Brookfield, who appeared for the applicant, said defendant got up one night at midnight, and cut a hole in the roof, putting his bead through it, and surveying things below in a threatening manner. McNeil: Nothing of the sort. The wife objected to smoking in the bedroom, so I just went up and cut a hole to allow the smoke to escape. Mr Alexander explained that he represented the man's employer;, Harvey and Sons, who gave McNeil the best of characters as a sober and industrious workman. He had been given a holiday lately, as it had been considered he was run down. The man was in a state of nervous debility and wanted a spell. His Worship decided to let the case stand over for a month.

Auckland, July IG. At the inquest on the body of Annie ToliJTe Lengdon Koose, who was found yesterday dead from a throat woumb a verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane. Deceased was a tniloress, about 27 years old. Wellington, July 10. In the case Rex v. Peddle, the Appeal Court, without calling on the defence, gave judgment that Mr Cutten's appointment as Sheriff was perfectly valid, that if he exceeded his power (as to which the Court expressed no opinion), Pcddle's remedy was by action, that the assault was not justified; and, lastly, that if the land hid not been sufficiently identified that omission was cured by prisoner's admission in giving evidence. The conviction was therefore affirmed.

Nelson, July 16. A public meeting expressed strong disapproval of the dilatory railway construction, and pressed the Government to push on the line to Buffer river, both to open up settlement and fulfil promises which induced people to take up land. The members for the district are to be asked to wait on the Premier, and all the local bodies will be requested to support the movement. Christchnreh, July 10.

The Tramway Board is paying the fees of six employees at the classes of I the St John's Ambulance Association. | The men are giving their own time. The | Tramway Board's coal contract this year has been divided between the We«tport Coal Company (l!)s Bda ton) and the State Coal Department (l(is 2d). The. cost of power is approximately the same, owing to the larger consumption of State coal required. . The Board has decided to prosecute any case of a woman getting off the cars while they are in motion. Six eases were reported in one week.

During June it was only found necessary to condemn a very small proportion of stock killed at the public abattoirs. Reef ton, July 10. A public meeting resolved to protest against the locking up of money in the Otira tunnel, Urns, perhaps, blocking further construction of West Coast lines.

I Auckland, July l(i. As n tramcar bound to Rcmtiera was proceeding down Ayr street last night, a trolley pole slipped from the electric wire and became entangled with the overhead construction, the.result being that a live wire was brought down. Mrs de Renzy, of Parnoll, with a semi and dnightcr, were driving behind the oar, and as they crossed to turn down a side street, the live wire, struck the horse, _ which immediately collapsed, tin-owing the occupants on to the road V hen the horse fell it took the wire with it, expiring in a few minutes. llu> wire continued to fuse, and burnt i" to the flesh, presenting a sickening spectacle. Power was finally shut off, mid after some delay the. service was restored- ? • i '**spag| Wanganni, July IB.' ■Tins morning the Aotea Maori Lmd Hoard opened tenders and held a ballot for sections 1„ several native blocks bo(ween Raetthi and Wanganni river flic total area offered was 29,787 acres -vying from 340 to 775. There were'i «n npphcants for 20 sections totalling -3..MW acres. Thirteen sections were JinnpplMKl for, but will probably be taken up by unsuccessful tenderers M.e upset rentals.for the 26 section* taken total £(185.

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