GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 317, 17 June 1915, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

FIRES AT SCHOOLS,

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Auckland, June-lfi. The public school at Oliaupo was destroyed by tire last night It, will *ost £OOO to replace. Tliu destruction of the public school at Puni was also reported to-day to the Board of Education, which resolved to hold an enquiry into iboth cases.

THE NAJPTER MANSLAUGHTER CASE.

Napier, June HI. Mr. Dolan, counsel for Alice May Parkinson, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the manslaughter of Albert West, has filed notice of his intention to move for an order of the Court .reserving for the opinion of the Court'of Appeal questions of law (I) regarding alleged misdirection of the jury; (2) the, alleged presence of two police constables and a civilian (a, cater,, er) in the jury room during the ttm£i the jury retired to deliberate' on their verdict.

ASSAULTED WITH WATER.

Christchurch, June 15.

As a sequel to the repeated complaints of people on the whai/f of heing deluged with, water, James Rufl'et, a fireman on the Wahine, was charged at Lyttelton Court to-day with assault. A detective said that he had seen accused squirting water through a. porthole. 'The Bench inflicted a fine of 30a and costs, and severely warned accused.