TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19785, 10 May 1926, Page 10

TELEGRAMS.

(Pbb United Pkebb Association.) AUCKLAND, May 8A five-ton auxiliary launch, owned by Mr Harry Osborne, who left the craft firmly moored to the jetty at 3 o clock yesterday afternoon, was found at 10.30 p.m. to have disappeared. The launch contained provisions valued at £SO. Three motor cars were stolen from city streets last night while the owner s were absent. VVAIROA, May 9. In a prosecution yesterday involving some case whisky which was delivered into the Harbour Hoard’s shed and stolen during the week-end, Mr E. O. Levvey, S.M., said that the shipping company had not completed its contract, and was liable (or the value. In another case in which the County Council claimed rates from a flaxmill company. Mr Levvey decided that the defendant was not liable for rates on land held under a flaxcutting license. William Ryan, a carrier, was fined £5 for ‘being drunk in charge of a motor lorry, and his licen'se was suspended for nine months MASTERTON, May 8. At the court this morning Leslie M’Dougall wag sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for using obscene language on a motor bus from Carterton to Masterton in the presence of a woman passenger, and was fined £3 fod assaulting a passenger, Alfred Hudson, who offered to assist the driver in pufting M’Dougail off the bus-