DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) DAMAGES AWARDED. PALMERSTON NORTH, August 2. At the Supreme Court,, a jury awarded Audrey Brook Taylor £330 damages for injuries sustained in a collision between a motor lorry, owned by the Wellington Express Coy., and a car in which plaintiff was a passenger. It was alleged that the accident was due to the negligence of the lorry driver. Plaintiff claimed £1039.

BANK CLERK’S THEFT. STRATFORD, August 2.

Everard Vauncey Hughes, until recently teller at the Stratford Branch of the Bank of New South Wales, pleaded guilty, in the Magistrate’s Court, this morning, to four charges of theft from the Eank, totalling £240 3s lOd. he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

ACCUSED OF THEFT. AUCKLAND, August 2. A clerk in the Railway Department, whose name was ordered to be suppressed by Mr. H. K. Hunt, S.M., was charged in the Police Court with stealing £l6B, the property of the Railway Department. The police stated that restitution had been made, and that probably accused would plead guilty. ' Counsel said it was not likely that accused would admit the offence. A remand was granted, bail being one surety of £2OO.

COMPENSATION CLAIM. WELLINGTON, August 2. When the Supreme Court sat this morning, for the conclusion of the case in which a motor cyclist, Desire Stephaan, sought £949 damages from James Frederick Lilley, with whose car he had a collision, in Kaiwarra Gorge, couhsel for the plaintiff announced that a settlement had been arrived at, and asked for judgment by consent for £829 inclusive of costs.

The Chief Justice ordered judgment to be entered accordingly, remarking he was satisfied that the settlement was fair and reasonable to both parties.

CAR-THEFT CHARGE. GISBORNE, August 2. A fortnight ago, a car belonging to Frank Hildreth, Mangawai, Hawke’s Bay, was stolen from the homestead. Two days later it was found capsized and abandoned on the coast road, north Gisborne.

A search had been made, by the police for two Native youths, who with a Maori girl, had been absent from the locality. After a chase over rough country, this morning they were captured. The girl had a sprained ankle, having to be carried for about a mile.

The youths, Jimmy Lawson, and Edward Tamai, were charged with stealing a car, and were remanded. The girl was charged with absconding from licensed service, and was also remanded.