DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1928, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Preßß Association.) ATTACKED AND ROBBED. AUCKLAND, December 8. Alfred Cooper, GO years, who was found covered with blood in Stanley Street last night, says he was brutally assaulted and robbed by two men. BUTCHERS FINED. WELLINGTON, December 7. For killing meat for consumption in the abattoir district of Wellington other than in the abattoir, George Patrick Costigan, of Lower Hutt, was fined £l5 and costs, and Frank Flipp, Upper Hutt, £25 and costs. WELCOME RAIN. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 10. During about twenty-four _ hours from midnight Saturday to midnight on Sunday, 3.63 inches of rain fell here, and was apparently general over Taranaki, greatly relieving farmers, who were beginning to fear a repetition of last Summer’s drought. PRISONERS SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, December 10. In the Supreme Court, John Edward Hynes, for housebreaking, was sentenced to one year’s gaol. George Frederick Langley Smith, and James Ryan, for an offence at Timaru on a girl under IG, were sentenced to three years’ reformative detention. ACCOUNTANT SUED. CHRISTCHURCH, December 10. In the Supreme Court to-day, the Dominion Trust Company, John Owen Jameson, Company manager, and Cecil George McKellar, accountant and shareholder, sued James Stephen Day, public accountant, for £5OO, alleged due by Day to the estate of the late Richard Hayward, farmer. Day counter-claimed for £6OO for services to Hayward, as agent, and denied the claim. Hearing is proceeding. VALUELESS CHEQUES. WHANGAREI, December 8. David McKenzie Stewart and Roy Patrick Kitching were arrested at Kaikohi last night, brought to Whangarei in custody, and charged with obtaining five pounds at Auckland by uttering a valueless cheque. They were remanded to appear at Auckland in eight days’ time. The police stated that when accuseds’ belongings were searched at the ’hotel an automatic and ordinary pistol, both fully loaded, were found.