LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19006, 30 July 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

AI the Police Court at Lawrence yesterday before Messrs Alexander Fraser and John Murray, J.P.s, David Cutlock, a runholdcr, of Ida A alloy, pleaded guiltv, and was fined ,Co for beiiif drunk while in charge of a motor ear in Ross place, Lawrence. Sergeant Lennon, representing the police, said that prior to his arrest the defendant had run into a verandah post and had done damage, to tho extent of 2os. He considered that defendant’s license should ho cancelled till the end of the term as an additional punishment. The presiding justices, however, said that tho accused was a respectable citizen except for au occasional lapse, and considered that tho publicity which would attach to the proceedings would be sufficient additional penalty. His Excellency the Governor-General has received the following wireless message from his Highness Maharaj Sir Bhawani Singh, Bahadur of Jhalawar, who sailed from Wellington by the lonic on Tuesday (states a Wellington Press Assocaition telegram) On leaving New Zealand, permit mo to thank -your Excellency once again for all your kindness and hospitality and the great assistance given to mo by tho dominion Government throughout my visit, which has been most interesting and enjoyable. I carry away with me to India the pleasantest recollections of my New Zealand tour. As a sccpiol to a raid on an Auckland billiard saloon last Saturday night, the proprietor, Harold James McNeil, was yesterday fined £SO for keeping a common gaming-house. Evidence was given by a police constable that he took part in a game of “ Mnrrumbidgee,” or shakes. Of seicntocn men found on the premises, two were fined £5, two £3, nine £2, and the remaining three were convicted and ordered to"come up for sentence when called upon.

At the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch Thomas Alexander Mitchell was remanded, on bail, on a, charge of hav-ij-ijy stolen Bs 4cl iroin tlio .rlospitiu Hoard. The police stated that so far ns they knew at present the total thefts were £9OO, extending over the past few years. The allegation was that the vouchers wore falsified, enabling the drawing of moneys allegedly for wages of nurses and wardsmaids who had left the board’s service. The hoy from St. Albans who was notified on Monday ns an infantile paralysis suspect has boon doumtely diagnosed ns a negative case. Dr T. H. Telford, medical officer of health, stated yesterday that as far as Christchurch was concerned, there had been no positive cases of infantile paralysis since the epidemic definitely subsided several weeks ago.

Portions of the left leg of a human being wore found on a beach at Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbor, by two waterside workers who had crossed for the purpose of gathering pipis for bait. Three or four persons have been drowned in the harbor during the past fifteen months, and it is presumed thp remains belong to one of these nnfor--tu nates.