ALLIGED ATTEMPTED CONSPRACY.

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 3

ALLIGED ATTEMPTED CONSPRACY.

MAN AND YOUTH ARRESTED.

NAPIER, September 22.

A do -patch clerk at the local telegraph cilice narn-v! Arthur lianlen* aged 19. was arrt->i-vl !;.-.t nig.it on a charge of attempting to conspire one Hiram Ashcroft to delraud Edward Lknbriclc of £20 9s and £5 by moar.s of false pretence. It i-. alleged that A.^licroft arranged with Limbiick. a V> )kn*aker, to accept w.res on iioi-se r.«>.:^. 'lhe.-e wires bore the tek>jrraph o^ite '-tamp as having been handed in haii an hour before the races were run. but inquiries showed that the wires had never pa.sscd through the office. Hanlen appeared before the court this morning, pud ■was remanded till Monday on bail. A.shcroft wa- arrc.-ted at Palmerhton North, and nas remanded to appear here.

On June 26 there w^r~ 784.434 ppi-o:>« -„, ill • r -f i. ' ■ i . ..I *V, ' - '•i 2 per 1000 of ih-^ poj.uiaLiun, Lk' .. ing a <JcK;re«&e of 6.7 per cent, for the quarter, but being higher by 0.2 per cent. than at the cad of June, 1908. Pauperism was higher than, in the corresponding pajriod o£ *ay yew aiape 1872,