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Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 7

“1 shall have-to'impose a term-of imprisonment,” said Mr Page, S.M. “This man has been well educated, and has had previous warnings in the sense that he has been twice convicted of serious offences.” The accused was Eric Donald Ross, aged twenty-nine, who a few years ago was a solicitor practising in Christchurch, and was before the court in May or 1926, and in August of the same year, on charges of theft, and sentenced to reformative detention. He afterwards went to Australia, where he worked as a journalist, and returned to New Zealand a few weeks ago. To-day he pleaded guilty to the theft of a suit case and contents from the passageway of a hotel, ami also a travelling rug from a shop doorway. The accused was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. —Wellington Prpss Association' telegram. A Wellington Press Association telegram state's that Jeremiah Purcell, aged twenty-five, who admitted being drunk while ifi charge of the Gas Company’s lorry, was fined £ls. She: “Mother asked me to object to the rise of the word ‘obey’ in the ceremony when we were married.” He: “And-.-what did you tell her?” She; “ I said I’d let it stand. I told her you could take » joke as well as any man.” , Four giant airships have been ordered by the United , States, Navy, Department. They ■will havo 4 cruising radius of 9,000 miles, a speed: of over seventy-two knots, and each will carry five aeroplanes. “ I’m' awfully sorry,” he apologised, as-ho' 1 trod violently on his danchig partner’s toes. “Don't mention it,” said she sweetly. “ I’ve been a stamp collector lor years I”-