HAWKE'S BAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 38

HAWKE'S BAY.

At the Magistrate's Court, Napier, a young man named Ernest Edward Mayea was charged with obtaining money by means of valueless cheques. Mr M'Carthy, S.M., dismissed the information on the grounds that l/here was no evidence to show that accused knew that the cheque was valueless. The Magistrate took occasion to say that he thought inquiries j should be made by the police how such a large quantity of liquor could be supplied at a certain hoteL to mere boy 6. The accused was not 17 years of age. At the Magistrate's Court on the 2nd, J. Duncan, who pleaded " Guilty " to a charge of stealing £20 at Blenheim in May, 1906, was admitted to probation for two years on condition that he paid £1 per month towards the restoration of the amount stolen. It was stated that the defendant had received the money from Thomas Henry to bank, but became intoxicated and spent it on a racecourse. He was willing to make restitution. Well-sinkers at Arataki, at a spot indicated by the Rev. Jklr Mason (the water diviner) struck water at 128 ft. Wells had been previously sjink to a great depth without success. Replying to the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, which requested the co-opera-tion of the Gisborne Chamber in the matter of pushing on the claims of the unopposed Napier-Gisborne railway executive, the latter body lost night resolved — " That as our own railway to Motu requires all our concentration at present this chamber cannot see its way to agitate for the "other line in the meantime. ' A member brought up the subject of steamer service between Gisborne and Wairoa. The matter will be discussed at next meeting. •' George William Allen, alias Nella, who obtained a sum of money on false pTetences to come to Napier to start the electric trams, was sentenced to three months' irrfprisonnient. Berthel Joseph Simpson, who pleaded "Guilty" to the theft of a cornet, tLe property of the j Daiinevirke Band, was remanded to j Dannevirke. I The petition in which Mr lati Simson eeeks to upset the election of Mr G. A. Mac Donald as a member of the County Council, owing to alleged irregularities, i<? being lizard by the magistrate to-day. Among other grounds, the petitioner alleges that the votes of two dead persons j were recorded. I