INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14437, 25 October 1917, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

,-.;■..■ . rPer Bresß.,'AflK)cl«o(i^i{ v ; AUCIvL AND, * this day. John William Kincaid, aged 37 years, single, residing with hi^ mother at* Devonpoct, cut.his t'bjoafc^vitl^av table knife. His, mother; ,Trhp r .;-had', previously taken, a razor from him, saw him standing before a looking-glass^ and was unable, to pi;e^ent"Hlism|.jrlnflie^nig fatal! injury, though .she tbok. the- Knife afttay from him. Kincaid expired on hfe[ way to the hospital. The Grammar School' Board . unanimously passed a i-esbluiion, authorising the appointments 7 of ''both male and female teacliers. 'Hitherto only mala teachers have b&en employed. ' ; WELLINGTON, last f night. ' -George Harris, charged witK; forging a document purporting to be, ;the will of John Smith and uttering same to the Public Trustee, was committed 'for trial to-day- "*

W. Salt, a resident <?f Punedin. fell through' a skylight from a. thiifd story; window at the Trocadfero private hoEel' 1 , last night and was' removed to the hbs-' pital, where he died to-day from in-*, 'teVnal injuries. ' *■•."'. •■ ;> WELLINGTON, this .day. ' The Appeal Court to-day is hearing.. 1 an application ' ;to strike off the rolls William Gqscoyne* Beard, solicitor, of Masterton, for alleged professional mis-, conduct m ; connection '/•■.with •■ dealings with Rangi Kerehoma, a Maori. Mr. Von Haa&t appeared for the' Law Society^ and >{r. v ,Gray, X.C,., and Mr. Myers for' Be^d?* The.- grotiri^g of the application are that Beard, being Kere- • homa's solicitor, and t knowing him to have j large ( . transactions) with William Bbys,~ Chenhells,* "who ' was'f oi'irferly representative of tho Public Trustee at Masterton, advised and procured^ Ke,rehoiha to give power of attorney to Cherinells and be declared" a European, j thus bringing Kerehoma under the in- . j fluency of .Chennells ; that by, undue influence m breach of his duty ftfrd m fraud of Kerehoraa's rights, he procured transfers /arid.,, sale's of Viands, known as Mangahuia Uliiroa and Tablelands, m most cases to members of Beard's --and .Channels'. families ; that such sale"]} were at' gross undejf -value, as evidenced by the fact that ' Beard and Chennells settled a subsequent action brought by Kerehoma against them by agi'eeing to pay £13,498 .sterling damages and! costs £600 and reUnquishing the claim to Tablelands ; 'that, hj'- conjunction- with ,Chennels, procured the acceptance by Kerehoma of less than £100Q out of a total of £46,000 purchase money, and acceptance of mortgages for the balance, suijh m several instances being for a larger amount than tljq purchase money payable by mortgage's ; that Edgar Hallett, of Napier, who was put forward as Kerehoraa's solicitor, 1 was really acting for Beard and Chennells, and Hallett was not instructed until arrarigeinents had already been entered into; "that, although Beard knew the ; lessees of Kerehoma's lands wanted to J renew, lease, or purchase, he subordin- . ' ated Kerehoma's interests to those of^jj himself u and Che^nels., \ '.'" jjfg