NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3255, 2 August 1916, Page 45

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

HAWKE'S BAY. Alexander MacMahon, who escaped with his landlady's daughter, a girl under 18 years of age, having- left the house by a window late at night, appeared at the Police Court on July 27, charged with abducting. He was sentenced to six months' hard labour and 18 months' reformative treatment. The Home and Colonial Stores (Newton branch.) were entered by burglars on July 27. who removed the safe to a cellar, packed it with flour in bags, and forced it open with explosives, .using butter from the store to tamp the charge.- It is estimated that about £l5O was stolen. The burglars broke two cash registers in the shop., apparently with an axe .and extracted about £4 in money. WELLINGTON. The Consul for Japan has received advice that the Japanese Government has despatched' Consul Satotsugu Ukita to make investigations in Australia and New Zealand. He will come to Australasia after sitting in the Dutch East Indies. The hearing is proceeding at the Magistrate's Court of a series of charges concerning the alleged theft of considerable quantities of goods from the warehouse of Sharland and Co. Tour persons are alleged to be implicated —James Bray (sfcorcman at tho warehouse), who pleaded guilty to theft, and was committed for sentence; John Morris and Edward Holla well, two grocers, charged with receiving; and James Connor. also charged with receiving. It was stated that the value of the goods recovered was £164; the value of missing goods not yet accounted for is about £2OO. After several weeks negotiations an agreement has been reached whereby the engineers of the smaller vessels trading out of Wellington will receive all-round increases iii wages, ranging from ?i per cent, to 10 per cent.CANTERBURY. Dr A. G. Maitland, dentist, was to-day fined £5 for employing an unregistered man to do dental work. Everybody's Picture Theatre Company was fined 10s for a breach of the regulation in allowing the public to stand in tho foyer. , Through Dr Orchard an anonymous donor has given £IOOO to the Hospital Board for the purchase of surgical beds and other requirements for the hospital, and £IOO for the purchase of surgical instruments. During June there were 36 treatments in tho venereal diseases department at tho p-eneral hospital, representing 17 patients. Five fresh patients commenced treatment. In the Magistrate's Court on July 28 Sidney Mayne was fined £lO and costs for Belling: milk containing 14.5 per cent, of added water.