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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 67, 17 September 1906, Page 5

There axe rumours that a particularly mean sort of & swindle has been worked on some of the- Christchurch boarding-house-keepers during the past few days (says the Press). Th« mode of procedure alleged to be adopted by tho perpetrator of ths trick is to represent to proprietors- of boardinghouses or. others who may be willing to accommodate visitois that ho is the agent for a syndicate whose object is to act as a medium for bringing - together those in search of beard and lodgings and- those wLLng to supply such"accommodation during Exhibition time. He asks a fee of 5s for registering the name and addr-ass of the person, who is willing to receive the boarders, giving the address at which the principals of the syndicate aro to be Jound. But on going to tho place indicated, • the victims of the swindle discover that the address is a bogus 'one. It is said that 6everal landladies have been victimised this way. Between the Ist and 12th September, «. lad 14 years of age named James Arthur Millward broke into tho houses of James Alexander, Ada Kilduff, Alex. Campbell, Wm. Connor, James Robert Patterson, and James Forbes, and stole £14 8s 2d in cash and goods valued at £6 2s. He was arrested by Detectives Williams and Kemp, and this morning brought before Mr. Riddell S.M., in his private room to answer for his condnct. On the application of Chief Detective M'Grath, his Worship reduced the charges from breaking 5 and entering to theft. The defendant pleaded guilty, and the chief detective explained of him that he ran away from home about three weeks ago, and in the interval committed the offences in question. It Was his practice to •watch people go out of their houses in the afternoons, then to break in and steal whatever he could get. His father was a widower etaying in lodgings, and he was of opinion that the defendant would be better in an industrial school. His Worship said that apparently was the only way they could bring the defendant under discipline, and committed him to the Burnham institution, ordering his lather to pay 7s a week for his. maintenance, and 10s a week until the stolen money waß refunded. Chief Detective M'Grath said perhaps some of the informants would not ask for the money, and his Worship added that in those coses the father need no pay. ;, There was a disturbance -which attxscted a. large cro-n-d of people in front pf the Commercial Hotel, Lambton-quay, on Saturday night, and Constable Gregor, in endeavouring to disperse it, got a rough handling. This morning two young men named Wm. Wells and Thomas Weatherburn were charged with caving assaulted the constable whilst in the execution of his duty. Wells, a steward on the Penguin, pleaded guilty, and was fined £5 with 6s costs, and ordered to pay £2 in respect of damage to the i constable's coat, in default 21 days' 'imprisonment. The accused was represented by Mr. Neilsen', who- said the defendant was under the influence of d^rink at the time, and called evidence in support of his previous good character. Wea-therbnrn, an employee at. the Arcadia, pleaded not guilty, and was remanded on Mr. Wilford's " application until next Monday, bail being allowed. Counsel stated that his client vraa knocked down in the crowd, and had one of his hands injured on the pavement: On risinsr to his feet he was arrested for assaulting the police. There were about 200 people present, and counsel was sure that by next Monday he could get a number of people to give evidence on his behalf- Sub-Inspec-tor O'Donovan said the constable ' was arresting a man for drunkenness. Wells interfered, and eventually struck- th« constable two blows on the cheek from behind. .Weatherburn, it was said, also ■truck the constable on the nose. The weathor forecast for next week we hope will be good. Good summer weather means good business, and gives tho ladies an opportunity of wearing tha bost, the lightest, and therefore the daintiest of materials. We have anticipated a dry seaion, and tho goods havo been bought accordingly. What Icoks nicer than a neat cambric blouse? Why, nothing. We quote you for the material — viz., 6£d, 7£d, B|d, 9£d, Is, Is 3d yard. The colours aro guaranteed to stand the severest teat in the washing tub. These goods are printed gn a white ground in the newest designs only — spots of all sizes, sprigs, stripes, and the smallest of checks. Your demands in tbese goods will be great, but wo have the stock. Don't forget: if you can't como and see them drop us a line, and we will send you patterns. Thoso will cost you nothing, and if you don't like them — well, it is our funeral. C- Smith, the Cash Draper, Cuba-street. — Advt.

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