LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13603, 8 February 1915, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. At the Supreme -Court, Ernest Adams, guilty of incest, vtfas sentenced, to seven years' imprisonment. • Chas. Samuel Lake, charged 'with setting lire to the railway station at Tauranga, m con 1 sideration of his previous good character, was 'sentenced, to two years' reformative treatment. ' Leslie Finlayson McKenzie,.' a postal servant, charged* with stealing a postal packet, was admitted to probation for a period of three years. ' . , ; The body 6f a man, unidentified, aged: about 40 years, wad found beneath the Grafton bridge, having evidently fallen from a height of ICOft. /The name "Gumbie" appears m indelible ink v bn. a linen collar worn by deceased. '' WAIHI, this day. Fred Kinsella, engaged at the Waihi Gold Mining Company's Waikino mill, received serious injury to his eye as the result of a pointed steel instrument penetrating the eyeball. The .injured I man, along with his brother, had pass- ! Ed , the medical test, and intended leaving for Trentham. camp this .morning. Jt was his last shift, and the accident occurred within half. an hour of knock-inf-off time. \ WELLINGTON, this day. A secjuel to a brawl m Manners Street; on-Satunday night,; was the appearance m court this corning of John James Glaytpn, . private . m the .reinforcements at Trentham, and Robert lii-own, extrooper. The former was charged with disorderly" conduct while drunk, and also with resisting arrest by Constable Willcox. There were four ' charges against Brown : (1) ' Assaulting Constable Devine, (2) using obscene language, (3) damaging a constable's uniform, (4) assaulting Robert Hearney, a civiliuit assisting 1 the police. Both accused were remanded until the afternoon.DUNEDIN, this day. The cViminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning before Mr Justice Denniston. , Tliere were only six cases, and none of a serious nature. Thomas Heatherington, aged 50, who lileaded. guilty to assault, causing actual jodily harm' at Invercargill, came up for sentence. He was admitted to proj bation for twelve months. Lincoln | Russell Roberts came up for sentence I on a charge of opening a postal packet. I I It was stated that the prisoner' opened J j a letter from curiosity, as he thought jit contained reference to him. He ".vas i a railway clerk at O'repuki, and only occasionally assisted at postal work. I He informed his superior officer before I complaints were made that he had openled the letter. The judge said the act i seemed more foolish than criminal, and ! ordered prisoner to come up for sentence ! when called on. ! Several territorials appeared at the ; Police Court this morning, charged .with , I failing to render personal service under the Defence Act. An officer of . tho Defence Department stated that .shortly after the war broke out it was announced that there would be no further prosecutions for some time. Quite suddenly a number of men ceased attending parade. "Mr Bartholomew, S.M., endorsed the remarks of the . officer that the present was ho time for-a man to shirk responsibilities, and tint he must Impose fines which Avould make shirkers realise * their duties and harden them up. Four defendants were, each fined £2 and costs, another 10s and costs. Other cases 'were adjourned.