LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1937, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

PHILADELPHIA, December 8

The Coroner’s jury returned a. verdict that O’Connor was responsible for the death of Nancy Glenn, the latter drowning when placed in a pool. He was immediately held for custody, pail was refused.

WASHINGTON. December 8

Representative White, of Ohio, introduced a Bill for the prohibition of trade agreements with' foreign countries, which are now in debt default, without an advance agreement to make regular payments.

WELLINGTON. December 9.

The ninth Australian Cancer Conference to be held at Sydney next April will be attended by Mr. R. Darroch, secretary of the New Zealand Empire Campaign Society. Sir James Elliott and Kenneth McKenzie are to deliver papers. The tenth conference is to be held in May, 1939, in Wellington, and the New Zealand delegates to the ninth are to seek suggestions while in Australia.

WELLINGTON, December 9

Before th© Chie¥ Justice, in, the Supreme Court, Annie Newham and Clara. Rowlett, spinsters, brought a motion for a new trial of the l property action in which Hart Spear, retired eye specialist, obtained judgment for £l4l/12/-. The ground of the! motion is the allegation that the judgment was obtained, or the result of the trial was affected; by plaintiff’s perjury in swearing that after a tenant left because of slips, a flat was vacant for about six monthsi before it was converted! into two flats. It is alleged that, the tenant left on April 19, 1932, and 1 the. flat was made into two flats between April 19 and May 28, and one portion of the house occupied from about May 28, 1932 until March 1934. The original claim arose from damage: allegedly caused by water diverted from, one property to the other. Counsel said that judgment. had not been entered, pending the hearing of the motion and he submitted the whole trial had been distorted out of all 1 proportion by the excessive claim for damages of £5OO, that had never had, any existence in fact, and that the case has been coloured by perjury. On behalf of Spear, it was submitted tha . t , the Parties were old, and plaintiff in addition, suffered from a severe illness that affected his mental balance, and resulted in a defective memory. He admitted frankly, now, in the light of subsequent discoveries, that, the evidence about the flat being unoccupied for six months was wrong, and that judgment should be varied by .£7B, and part, or whole of a further .£2O. The challenged evidence, it was submitted, affected only one issue, the claim for rent, and not the whole case. Plaintiff in an affidavit, said he had believed his evidence to be true, basing it on entries in a receipt book.