INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1590, 24 June 1903, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, Last Night. In the Supreme Court this morniDg four prisoners came up for sentence —Alfred W. Aitken, for theft, was seutenced to 15 months' imprisonment ; laadora M. Cohen, false pretences, 18 months ; Theodore Leohner and John Chapman, the boy burglars, applied for probation. Chapman's case was adjourned, with the object of putting him on a farm. Lechner was sent to the Industrial School. Napier. List Night. The Licensing Committee refused a conditional license to the Napier Paik Racing Club for their winter meeting next week. , New Plymouth, Last Night. Mr McKinnon Bain, manager of the New Zealand Hand in England, writes that the band hive been having wonderful success. They played by conimand before the Prince and Princess of Wales, and will play by command before the King and Queen about the middle of June. The tour is proving a financial success. INelson, List Night. A shocking fatality occurred on the railway at Spring Grove last evenine. Mr James Thomas Smith, a Waiiti settler, ami well-known cricketer and Druid, left the city by the 4 30 p.m. traiu and got off at Spring Grove to ta'k to his betrothed. He remained too long on the platform, and as the train moved off he attempted to jump aboard. He fell m.der the platform, and some of the carriages and the brake van went over him and mutilated both his legs. The young lady fainted with horror. Mr Smith was taken on the train and carried to Wai-iti, where two doctors amputated both his legs, but the sufferer died of shock Deceased was well known and highly respected DcNEriN, List Night. Surgeon-Captains E. J. O'Neill and A. K. Faic'uier, of the New Zealand Medical Staff, have passed their proficiency examination in London, conducted by the officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Both are Dunedin men, and both served with distinction iu South Africa.