TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 138, 10 May 1930, Page 9

TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

HOTEL LICENSEE FINED. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, May 9. Michael Forde, licensee of the Commercial Hotel at Winton, was fined£2o for exposing liquor for sale on a Sunday. The barman was fined £l, and two persons found on the premises were fined £1 and £2 respectively. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 9. In the Supreme Court to-day, Arthur Smith, aged 39, formerly a hotelkeeper at Lyttelton, on a charge of false pretences, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that he made full restitution. BANKRUPT CONVICTED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 9. The trial of Clarence William Bruce, of Auckland, builder, on a charge of wilfully failing tp keep proper books for three years before his bankruptcy with intent to conceal the true state of his affairs, has been concluded in the Supreme Court. An alternative count was that accused failed to keep proper books. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of wilful failure to keep proper books. Sentence was deferred. Accused’s counsel said that he would ask leave to apply to the Court of Appeal lor a retrial. The Judge said that ho would consider the point later. SLY GROG SELLING. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 9. In the Supreme Court to-day, Gideon Scott, for selling liquor illegally at Ashburton, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, this being his twelfth offence. Per Press Association. ASHBURTON, May 9. James Oliver Scott, who was charged with selling liquor without a license, was fined £SO, in default three months’ imprisonment. Scott pleaded guilty. He is a brother of Gideon Scott, who was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Christchurch to-day on a similar charge. ILLICIT DISTILLATION. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, May 9. In the Police Court to-day, Duncan McKenzie Boyd, owner of an isolated farm at Frankton, in the Lake District, was fined £2OO by Mr Levvy, S.M-, for aiding in the distillation of spirits. Counsel appealed for leniency, as accused’s circumstances were not good and he had a wife and five children. The Magistrate remarked that the practice must be stamped out. Ho allowed two months in which to find the money. BUILDING DESTROYED. Per Press Association. TE AWAMUTU, May 9. An old wooden building, erected fifty years ago, and formerly a flourmill in the early days of the Waikato, was completely destroyed by fire last night. The building was located on the Main South Read adjacent to the borough. It was well alight when the fire was discovered. The flames spread rapidly, making a most spectacular blaze. The brigade was successful in checking any spread of the fire to neighbouring buildings. The place was originally of three stories, but the top one was dismantled a couple of years ago owing to age. It was owned by Mr Claude Sargent, of Tauranga, and was latterly used as a grain store. At the time of the fire it was not occupied. The cause of the outbreak is a mystery. There are no insurances. FOUND HANGING. Per Press Association. GORE, May 9. Edward C. Thompson, an elderly man, was found at 1.30 p.m. to-day hanging by a strap in his hut on property of Mr J. Smaill, a farmer, a Maitland.