PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 3 November 1925, Page 5

PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) DUXEDIN. this day. At the Supreme Court Charles William Bryan, on two charges of forgery and one of false preten-:es was sentenced to j IS months on each, charge, the sentences { to be cumulative. Albert Edward Bottinj. for indecent ' assault, was ordere i detention in the; Borstal Institute a: Inver-.-argiil for ! three, years.

An injury to his kn«»e was suiiered ve<terday afternoon by Eric ( orne?. aged "o. "of o. i reswnt" Road. Parn.'ll. He was apparently attompting to board ' a rouncil motor hns \rhen lie slipped and fell beneath the veiih-ie. one wheel passing over his k.n-<-. He wa- taken to the distrift hospital, where he is proareesina satisfactorily. The ""Polynesian Gazette" reports that j one of the finest collections of bLeached i coral has been collected and is being shipped from the old Fiji capital of Lt'vuka to the Fiji conn a; the Diinedin Exhibition. The specimens include eighteen varieties, and some of the most delicate sample*, which it is hoped will reach Dunedin without accident, as they are unique in their beautr. There are s.jme fine specimens or' the genus (so well known i madropora, and the most delicate and profusely-branched lot is the madropora rosaria, while others are samples of the funga group i laeera. ftc . staghorn coral, podobaoia erustaeia. stylupora palmata and scriatopora iivstri.x. etc. When h> name \v&* calleil at the Poli.'e (.ourt yestprday morninsr to answer a charge of assaulting Robert Stewart VFylie and another of resisting Constable Tucker while in the execution of his duty. Lecil Mark Brown i .'57. did not appear, and the Magistrate. Mr. F. K. Hunt, instructed that a warrant should be issued for !i:s arrest. Some time afterwards Brown appeared voluntarily. Senior .'Sergeant. Edwards -aid that accused struck Wylie in a boardinghouse in Newton, while complainant was having a meal. It. took two constables and a naval man to effect Brown's arrest and handcuff him. A strong plea to have accused lined, rather than imprisoned. was made by accused's employer, but Mr. Hunt sa;d that he was not going to have policemen resisted or assaulted. "The police are our bulwarks between freedom and lawlessness." he said in sentencing j Brown to Ii days' imprisonment.