GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 103, 17 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

CARGO BROACHING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. In the Court to-day, Karl Alsen. a wharf laborer, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on a charge of stealing four dresses from the hold of •the steamer Kaliu. The Magistrate said that lie could not treat such offences lightly, and he hoped this conviction would be a warning to others in a similar position to accused. HAPPY FEILDING. Feilding, Yesterday. Feilding competitors now hold the chanipioir.hips in Rugby football (senior, junior and school), hookey (Romney Cup), bowling (Dixon Cup), cricket' (Manawatu. Oroua and district schools), and Wellington County tennis. SEQUEL TO A SUICIDE. Pal nerstou North, Yesterday. A sequel to a recent suicide was ventilated in the Ma nitrate's Court this morning, when 11. W. Scott, chemist. was charged with selling a poison, corrosive sublimate, without entering' the same, as required by the Poisons Act. The case was brought to settle a point of law. It appear* that tabloids are sold in great quantities to farmers for use as a cattle medicine, and the Agricultural Department also sends them out in large quantities to farmers, land chemists considered it not necessary to enter such transactions. The Magis-1 irate reserved his decision.