INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14221, 12 February 1917, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. (Per Press' Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. '. 'At the Supreme Court , yesterday Daniel Paul Philips, formerly clerk of * the Court at. Waihi, appeii.re"d for sentence dh a charge or stealing £162, and was sentenced to nine months' hard labor. A sentence of 18 months' hard labor was imposed oh Cyril George Pegg for theft . frpm . boarders in r an. hotel. Other sentences were: Herbert Pyke, theft at Wliangarei, three months' hard labor; Hoaiii Peni, forgery and uttering at Whakataney, three years' " probation ; Turu Whenau. theft from a dwelling at Waipiro BkyJ threp years' probation ; A'f ameta. Taaopa, for" theft and forgery and uttering, was dMered to come up for sentence whei^ called upon. Alexander ' Philip' ' N/eil, ' forT&fgVry arid uttering, iWo years' reformative treatment. John. McLelland, for theft, ,was sentenced to $me rhonths* imprisonm'ent. Ida Ellen Grant, for' "forgery arid! uttering at.-.Morri.nsville,., was. placed on probation for i8 m^hths. William Lawrence Higgins, fot- thm'-of £247 from his employers, Ayas sentenced to one year's hard yldbqi*. - James Poole, for theft at Hamilton, . was sentenced .to Cwo years" probation. .-■•'■*'■■"'■ 7 HASTINGS, this day..' .Frank- Watson, a . farmer and stock dealer, - , resident at Karamuy road, aged 50, wa.? drowned' whilst .bathing at Waimi.ra.ma yest^Hay. D. A.' Graham a'ftd IL W. vainly attempted; to rescue Jiim, and reached tlie* shore exhausted. Mrs Watson and: many others witriessec -the fatality, and were powerless to help. PALMiERSTbiN N.,. this day. A sensational case of robbery by masked, armed men has been . reported Yo the police: When N." H. . Sinclair, manager of. Watson Bros.' grocery, reached his house he was, held up by ( two mqn who were liiding inYlie garden. They rifled, liis pockety but lie' only had sixpence with linn. 'Then they marched him : a considerable distance down the road to an old gravel pit, where tluVy 'took., the keys, of the store from him. Mr "Sinclair ' made an attempt to break away, but one of ; the men fired at hini. He pretended to be hit, and -'his assailants. took to , their heels. On the previous Saturday' night a taxi driver was robbed of a small sum of money by two X malsked men. „, (Special to "the fceraid.) CHRISTCHURCH; this 'day..; . Mr. R: J. : Gillies, ex-Inspector of Police, djed .oil Saturday.. Ever since ai\ accident .which Mr. . Cs*illies met with a-t, the formal of tlie •electric, tramway systanl. , at ChristeWchi when his . hip ' was ( injured ' iiy (V. collisipii bet\veen'two cars?,' he hasvpeen practi callyari dnyatid, arid' for the past year ha» be^n cohfftied'to bed,. Ke was sixtysix years of '^Uje,. and -leaves, a widow, two 'sons, nnbyoi'io vdaughten 'J A Several . l ( ier'e ; . who' have retired 6n;si^eraniiuatlfo& have 'been' asked, by the Departnieht to. rejoin the service temporarily and take up clerical, work, the object , i, being apparently, cither to free younger men for activV servicY'or to 111 places; vacated by; railway men who.jqined the colors. 'Severn ex : sei*vants have 1 agreed ;to place' thei* services at the disposal <pf the Depart ment. Their 'superannuation, will be un affected ' by. their actiohf' ; 7