GENERAL TELEGRAMS,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 15 March 1910, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS,

THE GOLF CASE.

Epbebb association.) WELLINGTON, March 15.. The case Leckie v. Rawson. claim for damages, £786, for injuries received on the golf links, has concluded. The evidence to-day was principally as to the practice of players before commencing actual play. The jury has gone out to inspect the links, 19 miles from town.

A CURIOUS CASE

AUCKLAND, March 15. At the Police Court Joseph William Kneehone. Waihi, was charged with obtaining £771 9s 3d from a bank at Waihi by a false pretence. Detective McMahon stated that the accused and two others were winners of a prize of £2300 in Tattersall's sweep on the Launceston Cup, and that accused had left with the whole of the proceeds in company with one of his partners. The partner, Pennill, m offering to go hail for Kneebone, said all the money had been forwarded to Australia, where both were going -on a holiday trip. He stated that two others who claimed to be interested m the ticket had merely agreed to "come in," but had not paid anything on the ticket. , The Magistrate refused bail, and remanded Kneebone to Waihi.

NEW PLYMOUTH PROPERTY.

NEW PLYMOUTH, March (15.( 15. At an important sale of property, in the centre of the town a lot comprising 77 feet frontage, with four shops, were sold to Hallenstein Bros, for £9,500.

A DROWNING ACCIDENT.

ftttEYMOUTH, March 15. Charles Frederick Cambridge, aged 32, married, a farmer, was drowned yesterday through the capsize of a boat used as a punt with a_ wire rope. This broke, causing the accident.