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Evening Star, Issue 20263, 26 August 1929, Page 12

FROM OTHER CENTRES

BATTERED WITH A PALING. Thomas Ryan, a resident -of Ponsonby, was attacked last night by three men and savagely battered with a paling, and was taken to his home with head injuries. As he fell to the ground he heard one of his assailants say, "rHavo yon got him?” and another replied, “Yes. 5 ’ Then the trio bolted. —Auckland Press - Association telegram. ELSIE WALKER’S DEATH. Acting on instructions . from . the father of Elsie Walker, his solicitors have informed the Hon, T. K. Sidey, Attorney-General, that Mr Walker desires the inquest reopened.—Auckland correspondent, THE RIMDTAKA SLIP. The slip on the Rimutaka Hill has not yet been cleared, and the Public Works foreman states it is hardly possible that; the road will he open till .Thursday, as considerable blasting has yet to be done before the road can be termed safe. Service cars have to tranship , passengers, no traffic being allowed near the scene.—Carterton Press Association telegram. REFORMATIVE DETENT lON. Henry Milton Bates, who was convicted in: Dunedin on four charges of forgery, and was admitted to probation, came before Mr Justice Adams to-day for breaking the terms of his probation, and was sentenced for the original offence to two years’ reformative detention.—Christchurch Press Association telegram. ASSAULT ON MOTHER ALLEGED. When Frederick George Poulsen was charged in the Magistrate’s Court, P.altuerston North, with committing an aggravated assault on a feinalo the police asked for a remand until Thursday and opposed any bail, stating that the woman assaulted was accused’s mother. Counsel for accused made application for bail, characterising the police action in thiS respect as extraordinary, whereupon Senior-sergeant Whitehouse said her depositions might have to be taken, i A remand was granted, bail being allowed with sureties of £soo.—Press Association. SUSPECTED HOUSEBREAKER ARRESTED. Residents of the hill districts and St. Clair will be relieved to learn that the detectives have arrested a young man on charges of housebreaking in _ Morn-, ingion, Belleknowes, and St. Clair. The arrest was made at’noon by Detectives Russell and Jenvey. The accused will appear in the Police Court to-morrow morning. MEDICAL CONFERENCE AT SYDNEY. Sir Ewen Maclean, past president of the British Medical Association and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine, arrived by the Tahiti en route for Sydnev to attend the Medical Conference. He stated that ho had greetings from the Central Council of the British Medical Association to the New Zealand and Australian branches, of whoso work the council was very ticularly regarding the fact that 93 per cent, of the profession of these countries was within the association. —Wellington Press Association telegram.

AWARDED £730 DAMAGES. Air Justice Kennedy ‘awartTed Frederick Greeber, a gardener, £730 damages against Patrick Prendevalle, a farm labourer, for injuries sustained while cycling through being struck by the defendant’s motor car. The court found that the defendant should have seen the plaintiff from'a further distance back, and adjusted his movements accordingly, and that he should not have continued and endeavoured to pass another car with so little of the bitumen road available.—lnvercargill Press Association telegram.