GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 September 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Robert Humphries, sixty years of age, was committed for trial on a charge of indecently assaulting a child at Wellington. Annie Whitaker and William Bond, charged with using an instrument to procure abortion, were remanded for a week, the girl on whom the instrument is alleged to have been used being so illjftat Mr. Wilford, who appeared for the accused, refused to cross-examine her.

Dunedin, last night. The sura of "£OO2 0s Oil was collected to-day on behalf of the Y.M.O.A. Building fund, briuging-the total donations up to £8,269 18s 4d.

fWangamii, last night. The annual meeting ol tho Wangtmui Freezing Company was held to-day. I The annual report showed a successful year. The balance of profit and loss. ! including £4036 10s lOd carded forI ward from last year, was £10,047 0a Gil. The directors recommended a dividend of 8 per cent., the necessary provision for depreciation, the placing of £IOOO to reserve fund, and the carry, ing forward of the balance. The report was adopted. The company intend to enlarge the workß to a capacity of 8000 sheep per day.

i* « . Tk" l ™. l«st night. At the Arbitration Court to-day tho cases against the Smithfield and Pareora slaughtermen for striking 'in February last were dealt with. Twenty-two of flli i t B hflel l out of 48 cit «i were I fined £6 each. The rest had not been served or _ were not actually concerned n tl e strike. Most of the « Pareora Vntchers were stated, to have loft /or Australia before the proceedings wm instituted; a few were excused as not concerned m the strike, and of the r-st only six had been served with the summons by registered letter and these were fined £5 each. The fines were made payable to the Inspector of Pac-

A meeting of thirty anglers to-nfeht unanimously resolved th*t the »Vw government regulation restricting tlo a r X k ° ° f ttmt is unsuitable to south Canterbury, and recommending the Acclimatisation Society to frame a local regulation to override the clause. (Hiborne, Wednesday. A serious assault by a Maori on a white woman is reported from Waipiro Hay. ihe suspect has fled to the bush land is not likely to be captured without great trouble.

™ ~ i WeUragton, Wednesday. The charter of the steam trawler Nora Juven has been extended by the Government for three months from to-day The vessel will leave Wellington as soon' . 55. i ,? i . tftk ? n in and provisions." The localities iij which she is to trawl during the next three months are not yet decided upon.

r, ~ „ .Ohristchurch, Wednesday. David Baird was sentenced to six months imprisonment for perjury in I denying the paternity (which he afterwards admitted) of a child over which an inquest was recently held, . Woodville, Wednesday. A good find of copper ore has been made on the Napier Syndicate's property at Malmrahara. The reef & roughly thirty feet wide. A case of cruelty to animals will coiae liefore the Court this week. A hundred and thirty-nine cattle were put into four trucks, and when they reached here twelve were dead and fifteen down ;Th/"&, The /° U <* ordered removal tJ}li m \* ni *% ww Placed in a paddock pending investigations. The say two mor! trucks w"S

a „i, . Na P> er > Wednesday, factur ng opmm suitable for smoking was chsinissed at the court to-day. FuS was immediately afterwards arrested on 1 ?v f perJM -V to tha t hj" had worn he had not been in prison in Wellington.

Auckland, Wednesday. Alexander Patterson, draper, of Hawera, who -was adjudicated bankrupt on his own petition on February 10, 1800, with liabilities amounting to £IO,OOO, applied to the Supremo Court to-day for an annulment on the ground that the Auckland court had no jurisdiction because he was a resident of Hawera and that the petition should have been [filed there. Mr. Justico Denniston reserved his decision.

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