PERJURY CHARGE FAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17110, 15 March 1919, Page 10

PERJURY CHARGE FAILS.

■ ■ ■ ■» ■ THROWN OUT BY THE MAGISTRATE [BY telegraph.—press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A private prosecution on a chanre of nerjury was heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The prosecutor was Ernest McDonald, who acoused Lena Cos, a- married woman, of having committed perjury diyin? the hearing of a, case in which McDonald was convicts' of a breach of the Second-hand Dealers Act. for purchasing it ring from Mrs. Cos. McDonald, having lost his license, claimed that he merely sold on commission, and obtained signed authority from the defendant, who signed his bonk, "Mrs. Clark, Peacock Street." Mrs. Cox denied signing, and a charge of perjury was the result. The Bencli held that there was in. sufficient evidence to wnrrant tho accused being committed for trial. ACCOMMODATION FOR CREWS LESSONS OP THE EPIDEMIC. Giving evidence before the Epidemic Commission in Wellington, Dr. Valintine said he had been very much impressed with tho extraordinary number of seamen who went down with the influenza. He was strongly of opinion (that there was a call for belter accommodation and more sanitary conditions for crews aboard ships.