TELEGRAMS.
[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOOIATipij]
SENTENCE FOR BURGLARY. .BASTEETON, March 25 At the Supreme Court, Eric Malcolm Biel and Percy Martin Carmichael, vpre. sentenced to, five years e.ach m connection with the Paekakariki burglary.
THE BROXTON. CHRISTCHURCH, March 25 The wooden steamer Broxton, which has been lying idle at Lyttelton for several months, was announced yesterday afternoon to be at present under offer to the Union Company for a coal hulk. Ylesterday Captain C. McDonald, marine superintendent for the Union Company, and Mr J. Smith, superintendent engineer for the same company, were in Lyttelton, and made an extensive examination of thjc vessel with a view to purchase.
A BANKRUPT SENTENCED MASTERTON, March 25 In the Supreme Court on Saturday, Ernest Robert Ward, a carrier, of Masterton, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment without hard labour for failure to keep a proper account of his books during three years prior to his bankruptcy and for contracting debts, knowing at the time that the had no reasonable prospect of paying them —together with other debts.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19220327.2.37
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1922, Page 4
Word Count
173TELEGRAMS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1922, Page 4
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.