GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 206, 9 December 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

BETTING WITH INFANTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. I Waipawa, Thursday. .'J At the Police-Court this morning Fite--.is[ patrick and Matson, bookmakers, werp\: J? each fined £75 lor betting with in- ■ fants at Waipawa races. -is Hastings, Last Night. j Fitzpatrick, who was fined £75 at *Jj Waipawa to-day, intends appealing against the magistrate's finding. A LICENSING BREACH. "J Waipawa, Thursday. '£ Thomas Condrick, licensee of the Tikokino Hotel, was to-day fined £5 and M ihis license' endorsed for permitting drunkenness on his premises. < »

THE NODINE CASE. Wellington, Last Night. -1 The tangle of litigation James Alexander Hannah and Charles. 1 ] Nodine, which has occupied the atten*-1 tion of the Supreme Court on so many;; occasions during the last few months> ; has come to an end, and this afternoon - Mr. Nodine's solicitor announced a set- ' tlement, and asked that his client be re- 1 leased from prison. The agreement between the parties was read, Hannah consenting to the discharge of Nodine from • the writ of attachment made against ; him. His Honor made an order for !; Nodine to be released at once. He been in prison for about two months. "j DIVORCE COUET. Wellington, Last Night ■; The divorce case Frank Evans vereuS j Fanny Evans and Huntly Eliott (cor - respondent), heard in camera before Mr, Justice Cooper and a jury of twelve,' was concluded to-night, after a hearing v lasting four days. The petitioner £5Ol damages. The jury returned frj verdict for the petitioner with a far-, ', thing damages. A decree nisi was/ granted, and the petitioner was granted; custody of the children. j j

JUDGES'LAW LIBRARY. Wellington, Last Night. The Government has decided to make | an annual payment of £250 towards the '• Judges' Law Library, recently in Wellington by the Law Societies throughout the Dominion. STATE WATER POWER SCHEME. Wellington, Last Night. j The Minister of Public Works will advertise within a few days, in New Zea-'+.» land only, for an electrical engineer for $ the water-power scheme at a salary of £BOO per annum. J* NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. '•s Wellington, Last Night. f J -t New Zealand architects will shortly be" ! .£| invited. to submit competitive designs for the new Parliament Buildings. Prob- 'j ably a premium of £2OOO will be paid to the architect whose' plans are ac- -A cepted. J§