GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 171, 18 January 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ALCOHOLIC HOP BEER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Yesterday. For manufacturing and selling hop beer at Matawai containing 7.92 per cent, of alcohol, or nearly double the strength of ordirtary brewers' beer, William Osborne was fined £2O and costs. A similar charge against Wil-1 liam Pollard was adjourned for the Government Analyst's evidence, ' Weather ix southland. Invereargill, Yesterday. The dry weather and hot northwesterly winds here caused bush fires in many parts of .Southland, and sawmillers have had an anxious time in fighting the flames. Several mills were only saved with difficulty, considerable damage being done to the tramway lines and some timber lost. John Bart, Ruahine, lost fifteen cattle, a horse, and a shed containing implements and grass seed to the value of: £l6O. (SjJARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Auckland, Yesterday, A charge of manslaughter against a motor-car driver named Rhodes Battye was heard in the Police Court to-day. The case arose out of the death of John Alexander' McConnell on December 19. McConnell died after receiving Injuries resulting from the collision with a ,tram pole by the motor-car, in -which he was a passenger, and which Battye was driving. Accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed for tfial. »Bail in one surety of £IOO was allowed, CHARGE OF FORGERY. , I , Wellington, Yesterday. | At the Magistrate's (Jourt, Granville Hunt, formerly in business in Wellington, was committed for trial on two charges of forgery at Wellington in respect of two promissory notes, purporting to be signed by 'W. H. Nash and uttered to Wright, Stephenson & Co. . *, A FALSE STATEMENT. Dtinedin,, Yesterday. W. Harlow, storekeeper, of Outram, was fined £3 and costs £4 for breach of the railway regulation In that he | counselled and procured the making of | a false written .statement hy a storekeeper in Dunedin for the carriage of empty crates which came in by road and were returned by rail. The storeman was fined £l' 8s for making the statement.