DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3573, 24 February 1914, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

DUNEDIN’S HOSPITAL SATURDAY. rPBSSS ASSOCIATION TET SHRAM.I DUNEDIN, Feb. 22. The Hospital Saturday collection took place yesterday under beautiful weather conditions. The collection was originally intended to be held last November, but the strike upset arrangements. The town wore quite an animated appearance as the lady collectors flitted hither and thither in an attempt to gather in every com so that the 1912 total of £944 might be exceeded. Some of the lady collectors were at their post at 6.30 in the morning, and it was after 9 o clo-'k at n ight before the work ceased. -The sum of £l9O was in hand on Saturday morning, and a further sum of £soo was paid into the bank on Saturday night. With amounts advised by telephone and the estimate of donations to come in from the country districts, it is confidently anticipated that the collection will rqach £BSO.

A HARDENED YOUNG CRIMINAL

DUNEDIN, Fch. 23. In the Police Court to-day William Kelly, who gave his age as 17 years, was convicted on charges of. attempting to steal money from two shops and with assaulting a man named Rush. Accused was convicted 1 of stealing a bicycle on the 24th November and was ordered to come up for sentence when called fox*. “It is very seldom I have seen such a cool and hardened customer in the dock, and I have never seen one of TAS youth show such callousness and deliberation,” said Mr Bartholomew, S.M., who sentenced accused to six weeks’ imprisonment on each charge of theft from tills and to three months’ on the charge on which he had previously been before the Court, "and he would recommend the Government to deal with him" under the Industrial Schools Act. Accused' was convicted and discharged on the charge of aswault.