TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20951, 14 February 1930, Page 12

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United .Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 13. Henry Reed M'Keating (aged 34), and Mrs Evelyn Myrtle Julian (32)‘ to-day were sentenced to gaol for a month for shop-lifting. The evidence showed that the woman accused went to big city stores, where she held up dresses, etc., hiding M'Keating while he was stealing. The magistrate said the woman was as had as the man, if not worse. HAMILTON, February 13. Support to a recommendation of Dr T. H. A. Valintine, Director-general of Health, that indigent hospital patients requiring radium treatment should be provided with board and lodging and railway fares to the centres, was given by the Waikato Hospital Board to-day. Mr A. Blackman said that the Waikato Board _ was the fourth largest in the Dominion, and provision for radium there might be advisable. WELLINGTON, February 13. The magistrate committed John James M'Corquodale, aged 32, a salesman, to prison for three months for the theft of a suitcase and contents, valued at £2O. The articles were left by the owner, Mr Woodham, in the passage of the People’s Palace Hotel. The accused had a previous record. His excuse was that he had no money and nowhere to go, and he took the suitcase on the spur of the moment. NELSON, February 13. The Turf Hotel at Stoke, a wooden building, was totally destroyed by fire at 1 o’clock this morning. The inmates escaped in their night attire. A passing motorist found the building well alight and aroused the inmates. ° ’ CHRISTCHURCH. February 13. At the Magistrate's Court Herbert Handley, married? said to be the proprietor of a garage, was charged with obtaining credit by fraud in Wellington and Auckland, and was remanded without bail to appear at Wellington on Saturday. The police said that the accused was also wanted in Queensland for an alleged offence there in 1926. A girl named Violet Dempsey, 14, who disappeared from her lionie°m Chester street last Friday, was found yesterday afternoon by her guardian Mrs Kay, in a narrow right-of-way between her house and the premises next door. The girl was in a heap of sacks and old clothing in a clump of elderberry bushes. She was sick and feverish and did not want to come out She had been afraid of a reprimand for disobedience.