Press Associattoii, Auckland, July 20. The mast and sail of a small boat have been found at the sand spit at Maraetai. It is supposed that the boat capsized, but no oue as yet has boon reported missing. Roland Todd, who attempted to commit suicide, was before the Police Court to-day, charged with the act. Tho case was ad journed till Tuesday. The defendant asked . for bail, but it was refused. The young nan who committed suicide with dynamite at Kingsland was John Cromwell, not Crauwell as previously tele graphed. At tho inquest a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. At a largely-attended meeting of the Prohibition League to-night at the Forest ers* Hall, the following resolution was carried unanimously That this meeting of Auckland citizens deeply regrets to hear of the shameful manner in which tho law prohibiting the liquor traffic in the iCing Country is being violated, and respectfully : requests the Government to take more vigorous measures to enforce the law and bring into operation clause 33 of the amended Licensing Act, which would effec tively preserve Natives from being de stroyed by the traffic in strong drink/* Sir Robert Stout was one of tho speakers. Wanganui, July 20. At the sittings of the District Court to day, Mr J. C. Martin presiding, two youths, J. Taylor and Norman Hamlin, pleaded guilty of receiving stolen goods. Taylor’s sentence was postponed, until another charge against him in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth is decided. Frederick Clifford, for a grossly indecent act, was sentenced to 18 mouths* hard labour. A young girl named Davidson pleaded guilty of the theft of a number of articles of clothing, and her sister, Ada Davidson, pleaded not guilty. In the latter case the jury have not agreed, and have been locked up for the night.
