GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 224, 1 March 1915, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ALLEGED ARSON. u- By Telegraph.—Per Press Association, Wellington, Feb. 20. Arthur George Young, one of three luen charged with setting fire, to the White llart Hotel, Ngaruawahia, on July 19 last, was remanded till Wedncsday. Tlie other two men were remanded yesterday. - SIIKEP-STEALING CASE. Dunedin, Feb". 26. Frank Smith, who had ple'aded guilty to sheep-stealing at Livingstone, • r came u'p for sentence this morning. I'ri!l(l soner had been working on a water-race in the back country and 'had taken at lambs and the skins off dead sheep. Mr. Justice Sim said that as the man bore a good character and it mig<ht be an '5 isolated offence be would be justified in inflict ng ft monetary penalty, lie ordered Smith to pay a fine of £3O and to be kept in custody till the money was paid, the term not to exceed six months. ia, d ' AN ALLEGED ASSAULT, of ' a, Palmerston N., Feb. 26. id I' le Supreme Court was occupied tost day hearing the ease AV. 11. Hawkins against J. P. Johnston, secretary of the Manawatu Racing Club, for alleged assnult. Plaintiff claimed £205 damages. The verdict was for defendant. ,f A CHARGE OF MUiRDER. id ~ a- Wellington, Feb. 23C. Charles Harvey, a seafaring man, arl ttted at Feilding and charged witili the r .' murder of a Chinese, Wong Way Oiling, p. at Wellington in September last, was a . brought before the Court to-day and remanded till Friday next, on. the application of the. police.