NELSON NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 5

NELSON NEWS.

thp: parapara lease, volunteer thieves. [BT THCEOBAVH.— PRISS ASSOCIATION.! NELSON, This Day. Thomas Turnbull, mining engineer, on behalf of himself and English partners, has taken up n thousand acres of the Parapara iron lease. It is intended to start work at once, and carry on whether Cadman'o Company proceeds or not. At the Magistrate's Court to-day two brothers — Frank and James Shaw, the former a corporal and tho latter a private in the Stoke Rifles — were charged with theft. They were caught by the police robbing cabbages from Chinamen's gardens on the Maitai River. Both were in uniform. A watch had been kept for thieves for several nights, as large quantities of vegetables had been removed. Defendants were convicted , the elder wa* fined £1, and the younger £5, in default forty-two and thirty days' imprisonment, respectively. Accused appeared in court in uniform just as arrested. They had apparently gone into the gardens after parade. The Magistrate said he would communicate with the officer commanding r.nd nscertain whether the other membors of the corps would associate with petty thieves.