STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1913, 19 February 1875, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER PRESS AGENCY.

Auckland, TLis day. The execution of Nutene, a Maori, who was convicted of the murder of the Native girl Henrietta, at Orakei, wai carried into effect tc-day. He died protecting innocence. Death ensued very quickly. Arrived: Union, from Newcastle; Eleanor, from Adelaide.

Wellington, Thursday. A proclamation appears in to-night's Gazette, delegating certain of the Governor's powers under. Goldfields Act of 1866 to the Hon. Dr Pollen. The powers excepted are those conferred by sections 22,40,48,60, Si, and 107.

;In the Police Court to-day there was a case between the two fire brigade captains. Mr Whiteford, of the Wellington Brigade, charged Captain Moss and his branenman with haying deliberately .iurned the hose upon liim. Evidence was in favour of the plaintiff, though the occurrence arose but of a mistake. Some spray from the Wellington's hose wetting some men of the other company in the first instance, the hose was turned upon Whiteford in retaliation. |Fmed 40s, and costs, £12 17 6d. The Provincial Government have given instructions td the police to take action re. false labels. ;

Wellington, This day. . The Islands known as The Brothers, in Cook's Straits, have been reserved as a site for a lighthouse. Mr Provis, long connected with the Customs Department atJNew Plymouth, is about to proceed to Auckland, being promoted to a higher grade. The Times is requested to state that there is no foundation whatever for the statements contained in telegrams from the South, to the effect that the timber in certain railway bridges in Otago and Canterbury is rotton. The Times also contradicts a statement published in the livening Post that the Government has just received news of half a million being placed to its credit in the bank by some unknown agency, and says it was neither sent by nor passed through the manager, of the Wellington branch of the Bank of New Zealand.