DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Dress Association.) I AIAKRIED MAN'S FAILURE. DANNEVIRKE, Oet. 31. Thomas Lane Perinicott, alias Taylor, appeared before Justices charged with being found without lawful excuse in the servant’s room of the Club Hotel, Dannevirke. Accused was a married man and came to Palmerston North on Saturday to see a girl working at an hotel. Ili.s attentions were unwelcome but he persisted in annoying the girl, who complained to the police, and he was spoken to. Accused promised to return ro Palmerston North immediately hut did not go and continued to annoy the girl, who to get rid of him promised to go to the pictures with him. Later the accused was found by the girl’s friend in omplainant’s room and was arrested. Defendant said lie had only gone to the girl’s room to try and he friends. When the police arrived he was on the point of going to hook up for the night. Accused was given I t days without trie option and remanded to An-kland on a charge of failure, to maintain his children.

T HEFT’ SENT’EX( K. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 31. Alexander Gilbert Price, charged with theft of clothing was sentenced to three months’ gaol. The police evidence stated accused offered to hold a hag for a one armed man discharged from the hospital and then walked off with it. INQUEST VERDICT. DUNEDIN, Oct. 31. At an inquest on David AVhittot, foil ml dead with the gas turned on, a verdict of suicide while in a state of intense mental depression, caused by illness, was returned, I!EFORMATIVE TREAT)text. GISBORNE, Oct. 31. George McKinley, a casual labourer, pleaded guilty to nine charges of theft from motor ears. He was sentenced to 18 months’ reformative treatment.

ARSON CHARGE. CAAiBRIDGE, Oct. 31. After three unsuccessful attempts to burn R. Swayne’s homestead near Cambridge during the past few weeks, the outbuilding at Swavne’s was totally destroyed early on Saturday night, together with the contents, manures, seeds, implements. The same night a youth, aged eighteen, Robert Clifford Findoii, son of sharemiikers engaged at Swayne’s farm, was arrested and charged with wilfully setting lire to the building. Accused who appears of dull intellect, was brought before Justices this morning and remanded till i morrow. Several other charges are pending.

POLO PONIES. GISBORNE, Oet. 31

What is believed to he the best price given in this district for polo ponies was announced to-day, after negotiation during the week-end, by Sir llruee Stewart, of Pigeon Bay, Canterbury. Sir Bruce is a keen polo player and wanted really good animals. Tie secured James Jobson’s pony Ruhv at £2OO and Los. Fitzgerald’s Bono Dry at £75.

CTIAAI.BERS OF COMMERCE. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 31. The Conference of Associated Chambers of Commerce resumed to-dav, D. J. .McGowan presiding. It was resolved that the Government he urged to use its influence to bring about the modification or removal of restrictions in cheap rate cable messages imposed by tho Telegraph Convention in 1925, the opinion being that the restrictions hinder free development of inter-Em-pire trade. Other motions carried included: — “ That the Government he urged to establish tourist offices or agencies in other parts of the world in addition la those already in Australia.” ■ • 'Hhat the Conference makes inquiry as to the likely reception by commercial circles by religious denominations and by others affected by the proposal to stabilise the date of Easter.” A remit urging bettor general passenger service between Australia and New Zealand was lost. A. 11. .Mackroll (Invercargill) said that what was wanted was to remove the disabilities under which the south suffered in respect to the service with Australia. The South was not concerned so much with the type ol steamers as with the regular service. LAD DROWNED. AUCKLAND. Oet. 31. Hugh McElwain. 17. residing with his mother at Glenfield, North Snoie, sank while bathing in a stream al Albany. Attempts to recover the body proved fruitless. BODY FOUND. AUCKLAND, Oct. 31. The body of an elderly man, Charles Henry Seymour, missing tor several days, was found on Saturday at tho foot of a. cliff in Waitakera Hills. Death apparently occurred some days previously. OBITUARY. AUCKLAND, Oct. 31. Obituary—ll •M. Smeeton. until 1917, .head of the firm ol Smeetons, Ltd. GOVERNOR-GENERA 1 1. AUCKLAND, Oct. 31. The Governor-General left for Mellincton last night accompanied by Lady Augusta Inskip and Captain Orr Ewing. A.D.O.

inquest VERDICT. GISBORNE, Oct. 31. \t the inquest on John Andrew Smale a<'«l 30, who was found dead in a kitchen at bis house on Friday evening, evidence was given that deceased s general health had been good. He had no worries and had been out lor a drive with his family that afternoon. He as in good spirits when he left his wife and child at bis mother s and went home. The Coroner found death was due to poisoning hy coal gas, there being no evidence as to how the poisoning occurred. GREY MAGISTRATE’S COURT. i GPLYMOUTH, Oct'. 31. Joseph Michael Clark, for theft of jewellery valued at £2O the property of his employer Dennis Shonnnlian was ordered ' two years reformative. Thomas William charged with theft at Kotuku of property and cash valued at £5 and at Christchurch with obtaining a suit case valued at 1-s b> false representation to -one month imprisonment on each charge. A charge of securing board and lodging by false pretences, against Francis Patrick Brady, was dismissed. The Magistrate said the proceedings, if n nv, should be of a civil nature, INFANT;S BODY FOUND. AUCKLAND, Oct. 31. A railway worker this morning found the bodv of a newly-born male child in the grass alongside the permanent way on Park Road, near Khyber Pass. The body was wrapped in paper and appeared to have lain where it was found for two or three days.

AUCKLAND, Oet. 31The sequel to an exciting motor-car chase-in the early hours of August oth, was heard in the Supreme Court to-day when Thomas Herbert Skinner (27) and Jna Beatrice Wills (20) were charged with breaking and entering a shop and stealing confectionery valued at £lOl 14s; also with attempting to break and enter another shop with intent to.commit theft. Pleading guilty, Skinner was sentenced to 18 months’ reformative, and will give evidence against the girl, who pleaded not guilty. During the Crown Counsel’s address, Judge Reed remarked that the identity of the confectionary stolen was discovered by the finger prints on the jars. It i\as rather singular. He had often heard of finger prints being used to prove tic identity of the accused person, hut never to identify stolen goods. R AFFLE PROSECUTION. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 31. Giving his reserved judgment Magistrate Aloslcy convicted and discharged eleven Prebbleton women on a charge of running a raffle for a Sunday dinner in order to raise funds for poor children at Christmas. Tho Secretary, Afillicont Afaxey. was ordered to pay ensts.