GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 9

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

BURGLARY AT HASTINGS. ! By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, June 20. In the early hours of the morning enterprising burglars set to work "with crowbars on the briek strong-room of the Hawke's Bay Cool Storage Stores, and bored an 18-inch square hole through the brickwork. Another of the gang, evidently while his mates were thus occupied, endeavored to force the iron door of the strong-room, and was successful about 6 o'clock. A charwoman then appeared, and the thieves decamped. Nothing was taken from the safe, but the office was ransacked. The charwoman saw a partially dressed man with his clothes over his arm making good his escape. THIC NATIONAL BANK. Wellington. .I line 23. • The general manager of ihe National Bank of New Zealand lias received a cable from the London board advi-ing that the annual meeting of the bank will be held in London on .Inly li. when it i., proposed to declare a dividend of '.i per cent, for the half-year and a bums to shareholders of 1 per yuit. on the paid-up capital of C/oU.UOO. equalling 1"> per cent, for the year ended Maivh' :!1 la>t. Twentv thousand pound- v.iii be added to (lie reserve fund, which will then stand at £0:15,000, and IMS.nsO will be carried forward. 'J"he diroctors have further allocated .C20,00D in redue- ' tion of the bank premises account and ■ U-lu'M to the ollicers" poii.-ii.n and ■jr,i- . tuity funds. A NKGLKCTITL Ill>i:A.\l>. Auckland, June 25. In tiie Magistrate's Court a man named Gerald Joseph Holt did not appear in answer to his wife's plaint for reparation, maintenance, and custody of tic children. The wife stated that'her husband had given her only t-u shillimrs since Christmas. He was. she said, standing outside the court when she entered! Mr. Kettle, S.M., granted an ord"r for separation, 25s a week main- - tcnanco. and -iviiiir the wi;\ ei:-(o,|v o! . tie- ' i'.-Tv- a. He added thai ned.r'seeI J tion I'd of Hie Destitute l'er-ou.-. Ac-. ' I Holt would be sentenced to m:; months i I hard labor. I