DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[pew pbess association.} TOBACCONIST FINED. WELLINGTON, August 12. William James, 25, tobacconist, was fined £lO, with costs, for using his premises as a common gaming-house. DENTAL ADVERTISEMENT WELLINGTON. August. 12. Judgment was given in the Supreme Court by Judge Johnston, granting the injunction sought by Francis Allan Cotton, dentist, and Edmund Wallace Cotter, advertising consultant, against H. W. Frost, dentist, ami £5O damages. The judge said that it was sufficiently established by authority that there was a copyright in advertisements, and the one in this case, in his opinion, contained sufficient originality to come within the provisions of the Act. Cost were allowed on tile middle scale, witnesses’ expenses and disbursements to be fixed by the Registrar.

SHOPLIFTER FINED. WANGANUI, August 12

Dealing with a case of shoplifting, where a married woman, 42, visited the shop of Frank B. Berry, and stole four pounds of butter, 4/-, and a tin of baking powder, while Detective Packman and a constable and sergeant were secreted in the rear of the piernises, Mr Salmon, on account of the woman's state of health, fined hei £5, and suppressed her name. The Magistrate said that, although he proposed to deal with accused leniently, the Court had a duty to shopkeepers and traders, as well as defendants. Leniency was only shown on account of her state of health.

MENTAL PATIENT ESCAPES WELLINGTON, August 11.

An inmate of the Porirua Mental Hospital, John Dillon Corrigan, aged 27, who in 1932 -was ordered to be detained at the pleasure of the Minister of Justice, escaped from the asylum on Sunday. Corrigan was found by a specially empanelled jury, sitting in Palmerston North in July, 1932, to be insane and unable to plead to a charge of murdering his parents, John and Ellen Corrigan, at Mangamahoe, near Eketahuna, on March 28, 1932. The whereabouts of Corrigan is at present not known and a search is in progress. It is understood that Corrigan never caused the slightest trouble during his detention, and an official says that there is not the slightest cause for alarm.

ACCOUNTANT'S DEATH. AUCKLAND, August 12.

At the inquest on Eric Miller Edgar, accountant, whose body was found on the beach near Anawhata, yesterday, his wife, Myrtle Edgar, gave evidence that in May last, her husband left home at Mount Eden, and didn’t return until late at night, when he said he had been away in the hills to think over business. Her husband had no financial worries, although he was worried over business.

“There is nothing in the evidence to lead me to suppose this is a case of suicide,” said the Coroner, Mr Wyvern Wilson, in returning a verdict. “The evidence leads me to believe that deceased went to the West Coast to walk off his worries, and that something happened' to cause his death.”

EMPIRE ART EXHIBIT. WELLINGTON, August 11

The Empire art Joan collection of British paintings now being exhibited at the National Art Gallery will be in New Zealand for the present only until Saturday, August 29. The pictures are to be dispatched from Wellington on September 7 to Sydney, where they are to be on view from September 19 to October 19. From Sydney they will be forwarded to Melbourne, where they will be shown from November 9 to December 9. They will next be sent to Adelaide, where they will be displayed from December 30 to January 30, 1937. Brisbane is to have the collection from February 23 to March 23, and Hobart from April 25 to May 25. The collection will then be forwarded to Auckland via Sydney, and will be exhibited in Auckland nom July 7 to August 7. It will be shown at Wanganui from August 28 to September 28, at Christchurch from October 25 to November 25, and at Dunedin from December 15 to January 15, 1938. It is to leave Dunedin Cor London on January 30, 1938, and will arrive back there on March 15.