TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20799, 19 August 1929, Page 10

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, August 17. Negotiations for the sale by the Gisborne Harbour Board of the dredger Maui, now’ on hire to the Government at Westport, have been completed, the Government having acquired the vessel for £IO,OOO. NAPIER, August 17. In the Supreme Court Robert Forbes, Lavcrty, for breaking and entering and theft and forgery (eight counts), was sentenced to four years’ reformative detention; and Rone Campbell Price, for breaking ami entering, was ordered to be detained in the Borstal Institution for three years. MARTON, August 17. When William Thomas Boyce, amid 65, of no fixed address, was charged this morning with vagrancy the police stated that when the accused was arrested he ha<i_ in his possession a quantity of spirits of gaits, which ho intended to take. He had lost his ivife 23 years ago in Queensland and his plan was to retiio to Die rear of a shop in tljp main sticet, swallow the salts, mid tjien drop on t]ic shop front at the exact hour of Ills wiles cleatli. The accused, who is down and opt, i s being cared for by a local clergyman. He was ordered to come np for sentence when called upon. W’ELLINGTON, August 17. At the request of the Carillon Society the Alii lister of Defence (Mr T. if. Wilfoid) lias agreed to supply a complete copy of the official roll of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, to be deposited in the campanile which will be erected. There are 97,335 names on it. One copy lias already been placed in the AslihuiTon War Memorial. After drinking with another man in the Panama Hotel, Walter Leonard Clark, aged 33, on going outside asked him for the loan of a shilling. The man produced his purse, whereupon Clark gialthed it and made off, hut was subsequently arrested. He was fined £5, with tun alternative of one moutli/s imprisonment. He laid been before the court (wo months ago on a somewhat similar offence.