TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19762, 13 April 1926, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., April 12,

In the Police Court this morning John Samuel Thomas Parsons, aged 24, pleaded guilty to the theft of various articles at Wellington, the property of Dulcie Key; also to obtaining from Wilfred Bagrie, of Levin, £3O by falsely representing it to be paid for a third share in a side-show. On the minor charges he was ordered to come up for sentnece if called upon within 12 montns, and for false pretences was ordered to be detained for 18 months for reformative treatment. Gerry Gambitsis. a fishmonger, pleaded guilty this morning to a charge that, being the driver of a motor car, he failed to stop when an accident occurred, and also to driving the car without a license. The police stated that accused was driving the car in Cook street yesterday afternoon, when he knocked down a girl aged four years, who sustained a broken leg. After the accident accused slowed the car down and looked round, nut went on. A taxi driver who witnessed the occurrence went after him, and compelled him to return. Accused was fined £3 for not stopping, and £2 for driving without a license. DANNEVIRKE, April 12. George Paris and Archibald Ernest Johnson were before the Magistrate’s Court to-day, the former charged with negligently driving a motor car, acid the latter with assisting Paris in negligent driving. The charges arose out of a motor accident in High street on the evening of February 6, ■when a car owned by Johnson, and driven by Paris, met with a mishap, and George Lawry, a passenger, received injuries from which he subsequently died. After hearing the evidence the justices of the peace dismissed the informations. WELLINGTON. April 12. The Tahiti, which arrived this morning, experienced some trouble loading fruit at Rarotonga, owing to the loss of lighters and launches in the recent hurricane. However, she completed her load insr in good time. "With regard to a telegram from Auckland in regard to a fault in the E. and E. cable, this only applies to one of the two lines from Sydney to Wellington. A fault has developed in one, but the other is in regular working order, and there is no interruption in communication. The Secretary of the General Post Office has received the following radio telegram from the steamer Marama: Passed yacht Psyche 450 miles west of Cape Maria Van Dieman. Psyche reports all well. Mr Justice Sim delivered reserved judgment on an application for judgment and a motion by a defendant for retrial in a recent case in which Eleanor Heap claimed £BOO damages for slander against Elizabeth Green, and was awarded £250 by the jury. An unusual point made on the defence was that the defendant honestly believed that certain statement# were true, jind it was her duty to make them. Mr Justice set aside the defendant’s" claim that the occasion was privileged, as the jury had found that she did not believe the statements to be true. The judge refused to recoguise the arguments for a retrial as sufficient judgment was given for the plaintiff in acordance with the jury’s finding. To the Automobile Association a complaint was made that a motorist had a narrow escape from death at a crossing through the driver of a train Hot sounding his whistle early enough. A copy of the letter has been forwarded to the Railway Department. GREYMOUTH, April 12. Richard Ronchi, a butcher at Blackwater, was convicted at Greymouth of possession of sheepskins and hides from which the ears had been removed. He was fined £2O, with costs. The Magistrate (Mr*Meldrum, S.M.) said that the breach was deliberate, and had been going on fo:f the past three and a-half years. Thomas Barren, for a similar offence, was fined £2, with costs, his plea of ignorance being accepted. CHRISTCHURCH. April 12.

Several companies carrying on business in Canterbury and Otago -were convicted in the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr H. Y. Widdowson, on charges of not having licenses, and were fined in amounts ranging from £5 downwards. The informations were laid by the Commissioner of Stamp Duties.