TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2341, 12 July 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

|nr TEI.E' .II.U H— I-KISS ASSOCIATION', 1 MASTKKTOX. Monday. At the R.M. C-eirt \V. F. Hewlett was i’-m-ii to for giving gratuity to a railway station master at Mangmahoe. GRKVMOCTH, Monday. A pobli - in-- ting was hcM on Saturday nigiit to consider whit steps could lie Uken to assist the sufferers by the late lloods. His \\ orship the Mayor was in the chair. The borough council voted i.V-0; tie.- Midland Kiilway, t'H); .Myers and Co., \\ eilington, t'd bs; Thompson Shannon ami Co., Wellington, £lO 10s; A. Ik-llier, Dunedin, £•_• ■_>, : Pinkerton U vilington, £->. Tiie subscriptions in tn-- room lolaib-d the amount to nearly' £IOO. On Saturday the mayor took round some ,0 blankets and arjuantity’ of food to sonic of the worst cases of distress. DUNKDIK, Monday. At tiie Supreme Court to-day. Robert McCann, found guilty of indecent assault on a child, and recommended to mercy by the jury, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour. Thomas Edwards, for wounding, received a similar sentence. In tiie charge of assault and robbery against David Kerry, -John Hunter, and ioim Atkinson, tiie first two were sentenced to three years, and Atkinson to four years’ hard labour, the judge remarking that these offences must be put a stop to. The charge of arson against K-.-aueiiamp Ihornc has not been concluded. The funeral of Alexander Inglis took place to-day, and was very largely attended, the industrial school band playing the march. 1 lie charge of larceny as a bailee preferred against Alexander McKenzie, who was arrested on board the Melbourne boat at the Bluff, was withdrawn at the Police Court to-day by the solicitor for the prosecution. File charge had been laid under a misapprehension.