GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 25 March 1915, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

OPIUM SMOKER FINED. V ' :j By Telf graph.—Proas Association. 1 Invorcargill, March 24. Loo Loo was fined £lO far smoking'.! opium and £2O for having opium, in bis possession . INTERIOR ICE-CREAM. '/! Bunedin, March 24. Six confectioners wore fined 10s each "J and costs for soiling ice-crcam not con- j'.; taining ten per cent, of cream. Small I penalties were imposed as a warning. *' THE OAMARU SENSATION ALLEGATIONS NOT PROVED. Oamaru, March 24. . * Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., delivered"' 1 !! judgment this morning as the result of-y the inquiry into the fire at the Star undV.; Garter Hotel. After a lengthy r(Yi**w of the evidence lie said lie was unable" ; £o maH! any express finding. The for- '' mal verdict was that t'si- htar and (Jarter Hotel was partly destroyed l>y ino\" on February 14, but there was notsufll. ■** cient evidence to show how tho Arc was « caused. ■ A BANKRUPT SENTENCED. « % Auckland, Mar<A 'ii Noah Cohen, a bankrupt was. sentenced to one month's impriwnniPnfr J with hard labor for having farhd to keep proper hooks of account prior to $ his bankruptcy. j WELL KNOWN MAN ARRESTED VT.'i AUCKLAND. .^v Aucklnrd, Last Nighf • This morning ft young man namfil W."'t P. Storey was arrested by DetecMre 1 . Gourley on a charge that he was>an i-llr. ? and disorderly person with insufficient .! lawful ( visible moans of support. Storey is a rather well-known figure •<> about town. He had an office in town for the purpose of doing business ts d *■„ financial agent, and just pnor to ibe last _ Parliament elections lie came into public prominence by putting himself up . as an Independent candidate for Par- 1 , inell. . _ « He has been announced as a, candidate -J for a seat on the Auckland Education i' Board. '