DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1931, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 30. j I During the past few days several I counterfeit halferowns have been' I handed to shopkeepers in Dunedin, j Those coins bear the date 1929, and j • are new in appearance, but softer than I the genuine article. WELLINGTON, April 30. I I The body of William George Pinkey,; | who has bee n missing since April 11, was found on the seashore near Sea- | ! toun wharf yesterday afternoon, by j the police, was taken to the morgue, where the body was later identified ! Kay, who has been missing since 5 Sunday, April 19, returned home last night. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 29. > ! George Lewis Co-’OS, in the Police Court to-day was sentenced to four-1 I teen days’ hard labour on a second | I offence of being in a state of intoxi-j I cation while in charge of a motor-car and for u breach of his probationary license . Forcing an entry lust night through I the back window of the office of Ncm - : toil, King. Ltd., thieves blew open the strongroom and a small safe and removed cash containing about £200., nostly in notes. , • TIMARU, April 29. The death folloM’ing injuries caused by a fall from a moving automobile if Robert Galvin Rahilly Nesbitt, aged twenty-six, carrier, of llighfield, Timaru, resulted in the arrest of the car I owner, Thomas James Cox, war penj sioner, and his companion. John Henry Fitzgerald, labourer. Committed for I trial, the accused appeared before the j Supreme Court, when the grand jury I J returned a true bill on a charge of 1 | manslaughter and six subsidiary charges re’-ating to assault and robbery. The accused were found guilty after twenty minutes, retirement on the major charge of manslaughter. They will be sentenced on Friday morning.