GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1915, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. In the Supremo Court to-day, .lames Kirkma.il was convicted on a charge of threatening to bum down the Victoria Hridgu Hotel, near Kawaru (Jorge, but was recommended for clemency, owing to the excited state he was in when he made the threat. Sentence was deferred. John Robert Henderson, of Milton, was charged with stealing HO, paid to him on behalf of {he Hth Otago Regiment, and with making a false entry, with intent to defraud. Accused was convicted on both counts, but was recommended for leniency on account of the laxity l in keeping accounts and making disbursements. Sentence was deferred. A charge against accused of stealing £5, received lor ammunition, is partly heard! - Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, George Penman was convicted on a charge of indecently assaulting-a crippled girl, and remanded for sentence. John Dickson, formerly an attendant at Porirua Mental Hospital, was acquitted of a charge of manslaughter, arising out of the death of a patient named Hamblyn, who suffered shock as the result of being scalded in a bath, SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Supreme Court criminal sittings to-day, John Riely was found not guilty of mischief at Brighton, and Mfr-.'fJ .inn-csi McColl. who had pleaded gui'ty and implicated Kicly, was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to pay costs of the prosecution. lames Kirkman, alias Jas. Turner, was acquitted on a- charge of destroying a small cottage and contents, but has still stand trial for threatening to burn down an hotel. George Waterman, having been rejected for war service, was ordered to come up for sentence for forgery within three years, and was further ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. ALIEN TRADERS. Wellington, Last Night. An Unler-in-Council, Just gazetted, provides that if the Attorney-General 'is satisfied in respect of any company, firm, or person carrying on business in New Zealand that any alien enemy, whether resident in New Zealand or elsewhere, is interested in that business, and that the business is being carried on under representations calculated to mislead the public as to the persons interested in that business, the Attorney-General may, by notice in the Gazette,' prohibit that company, firm, or person from continuing to carry on business in Now Zealand. EMBARGO ON BUTTER. Wellington, Last Night. ''lt should soon be possible for us to lift the embargo on the export altogether." said the Prime Minister to-day, in referring to the local reduction in the price of butter. "All the factories in Auckland, and most of the factories in Taranaki, are now in operation, and the output will increase very rapidly during the next month or two. So far as the prohibition of the export of butler has been enforced it will be lifted locally when the price falls. A few days ago 1 allowed a small shipment of butter to leave Auckland, on the understanding that the price would be reduced there, and the reduction was made."