WELLINGTON NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 834, 7 March 1903, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS

FALSE PRETENCES

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, last night. Mary Shannon, alias Bock, Lang, Bennett, and Brunnell, about thirtyeight years of age, who was at one time a state school-teacher in Victoria, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining two sums of £25 and £lO, from Ellen Pelham, wife of a cab proprietor. It appeared that defendant represented to Mrs Pelham that she was about to purchase a poultry farm at Mount Roskill, Auckland, and could secure an adjoining property i'or complainant at a very low rate. Mrs Pelham thereupon advanced £25 as a first instalment- of the purchase money, and gave another £lO later on. Enquiries that were made subsequently showed that the prisoner’s story was a fabrication. .She was remanded for sentence to the Supreme Court. She also admitted having obtained fifteen pounds by fraud from Ernest- Eittle, at Christchuteh. Sentence in this case was postponed. ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

The English cricketers, accompanied by Albert Trott, sailed by the Mokoia to-night, for Sydney.-

THE WAGES DISPUTE

Tile Secretary for the Labor r Department iias left for Auckland in connection with the cabinet-makers’ dispute in that city.

BOWLING ASSOCIATION

A meeting of the Council of the Nortli Island Bowling Association was held to-night. The recommendation from a meeting of bowlers held during the Palmerston tournament,in favor of having a standard bowl of wider bias adopted, was discussed, and -it was decided to send to England for a standard test howl. A further recommendation as to the advisablcncss of each club contributing to the expenses of future tournaments pro rata, was also considered. A circular was drafted asking suggestions from the different clubs as to minimising expenses. It was resolved tiiat certificates be given to winners at future tournaments. COUNTESS DE COURTE.

The wife of the Consul for France in New Zealand, the Countess De Courtc, left by the Mokoia to-night for Sydney, en route to Europe. The Countess has been in very indifferent health lately, and is to undergo medical treatment in Paris.