COURT OF APPEAL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20829, 12 April 1933, Page 17

COURT OF APPEAL.

0 DECISION RESERVED IN WILL CASE. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, April 11. Upon the resumption of the hearing of the case Barton and others v. Moorhouse in the Court of Appeal this morning, Mr Evans, counsel for the children of Mrs Linda Rhodes-Moor-house, addressed the Court, arguing that the previous decision of the Court of Appeal had no application in view of the circumstances in the present action being very different. The Court reserved its decision. STOWAWAY SENTENCED. # ■ 1 (press association telegbam.) AUCKLAND, April 11. Arrested upon the arrival of the Monterey from Sydney, a labourer, Allan McDonald, aged 30, was later charged in the Magistrate's Court with stowing away in the vessel at Auckland on March 27. Accused pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said a feature of the case was that accused had apparently threatened the ship's officers. Accused asked the Magistrate to take into consideration the fact that he had been on. bread and water during the voyage. In sentencing accused to 14 days' imprisonment, the Magistrate commented that seeing accused was a stowaway, he had no grounds for complaining of his treatment. The palm for sobriety must be handed to the district—or "liberty"— of Romney Marsh, Kent, where for the last 14 years there has not been a single conviction for drunkenness. Police evidence of this spotless record was given at the local licensing sessions recently. About 2000 people inhabit the liberty all the year round, but in the summer time there are many thousands of visitors and trippers. A shrew mouse eats more than three times its own weight of insects in 24 hours.