GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10513, 7 April 1927, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

SALAMAN’Ss “CURES.” Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. Finality was not reached to-day in the trial of the Indian herbalist, Abraham Wally Mohamed Salaman. on six charges of attempted falsepretences. A number of additional witnesses testified that they had been cured or had received greatbenefit from Salaman’s treatment. Several of these witnesses said they had been treated by doctors for years without result. The case was adjourned to enable counsel for Salaman to call expert evidence regarding the composition of the medicines supplied by Salaman to his patients. DRUNKEN DRIVER. HAMILTON. Last Night. A Kihikihi carrier, Claude James Courts, was fined £lO and had his driver’s license suspended for a year for being drunk wlnle in charge of a motor lorry. CHILD DROWNED. PALMERSTON N., Last Night. The discovery of a child's body in a creek at Fitzherbert West, where he had often played and once before fallen off a -bridge into the mud. resulted in an inquest and a verdict of accidental death. The child was Cyril Douglas Fisher, aged 18 months. MODERN MORALS. DUNEDIN, Last Night. At the Magistrate’s Court at Clyde yesterday, Arthur Cyril Bond was charged with on March 3rd, at Clyde abducting an unmarried girl under the age of 18 years, with intent to unlawfully carnally know her.

Th© Bench said there was a case to answer and he committed defendant to the Supreme Court- at Dunedin Accused pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. The girl in the case was convicted on a charge of vagrancy and was ordered to come up for sentence at any time in the next two years. A WARNING. WAIROA. Last Night. In the Police Court, to-day A. McNae was convicted without a fine for not taking out a special fishing license for Lake Waikaremoana.