COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 June 1926, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ASSAULT AT HOOKEfY MATCH,

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ,CHRISTCHURCH. June 28.

A : difference of opinion between two spectators at the hockey tost match between -the Indian Army team and New Zealand .at Lancaster Park. on Saturday resulted in one assaulting the other, an old man. Amid the hoots of the crowd the aggressor was led away by a. constable. Summers Heruika Edwards, aged 32, was charged in the Magistrate’s .Court to-day, before Mr. H. P. Liawry, S.M., with assaulting John Lawrence Turner.. Accused, who had a. previous conviction for assault, was fined £3,.

INTOXICATED DRIVER. IMPRISONED.

WELLINGTON, June 29

Found last night in a very intoxicated condition while in charge of a motor lorry, Henry Latham, aged 49, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. The police .stated that the accused had hacked his lorry into a shop, causing damage to the extent of £4. He had been fined £lO in April for being drunk while in charge of a motor.

ALLEGED THEFT OF JEWELLERY

AUCKLAND, June 29. Detectives arrested Cyril Southwood, aged 33, and James Fitzgerald, 29, who were charged at the Police Court with breaking and entering the pawnshop of David Bookman and stealing rings and watches valued at £9O. ■Southwood was also charged with the theft of a ring valued at £'lo, the property oF a person unknown. He pleaded guilty to the latter charge. Fitzgerald was charged with being an idle and disorderly person and having no lawful means of support. He pleaded guilty to this charge. Both were remanded till July 5 on the major charge.