TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 12

TELEGRAMS.

(Pee United Pbess Association.! AUCKLAND, July 16. The Waitemata Bridge Committee by 14 to 6 adopted a resolution to promote legislation empowering the raising of a £11,000,000 bv lottery, of which £750,000 will be allocated for the erection of a bridge to connect the city and the northern districts. WELLINGTON, July 16. Edward Bcazley, aged 36 years, pleaded guilty to-day to the theft of 11 mirrors of the value of £4 16s, the property of his employers. Read and Fenwifck. The chief detective said accused sold the mirrors to a second-hand dealer, but all of them had been lecovercd. Accused was getting £6 a week. Mr E. Page, S.M., treated the offence seriously, and imposed a line of £3O, in defaifft two months. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Herbert Vincent De Rosa admitted 14 charges of obtaining money totalling *.46 from the Chinese in the city by falsely representing himself as an insurance agent. Mr Pa<m refused probation. On the first charge accused was convicted and sentenced to a term of reformative detention not exceeding three years. On the other charges he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within three years. CHRISTCHURCH, July 16. Peter Busbridgo, a labourer, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by Mr H. A. Young, S.M., for what the Magistrate termed a brutal assault on a woman. Accused expressed regret for the offence and said he had mistaken the woman for his wife. ASHBURTON, July 16. Robert Henry MacLcm was fined £5 and his license suspended till next March for motoring whi!e drunk. The case was the sequel to a collision in which cans were damaged.