INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16121, 9 May 1923, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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WELLINGTON, this day. Arthur Henry Woods was found guilty in the Supreme Court this morning of indecently assaulting two little girls. The jury recommended that the prisoner be mentally examined. T don't wonder at- the recommendation," said Sir Robl. Stout. "Tho prisoner has been a bad citizen all his life. He has been convicted of theft, breaking and entering, and thre.3 sentences for indecent assault of a more .serious nature than the present. He has spent nineteen years in gaol for indecent assault, apart from sentences for other offences." Prisoner was remanded for sentence.

DUNEDIN, this day

The 'lease for threo yeari of tho goodwill of the City Hotel has been sold to Mr. McCormick, late of tho Pembroke Hotel. The price is understood to be in (he neighborhood of £16,000.

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WELLINGTON, this day

Inscribed stock : 1939, buyer £97 ss; 1938, £97 ss, seller £97 12s 6d; 1933, buyer £lOl 10s, seller £lO2 10s; 1927, buyer £97 ss; banks—Australasia, seller 2755; National, buyer 133 s 6d, seller 134 s 9d; New Zealand, buyer 60s; Union, buyer 2915; insurance— South British, buyer 37s 6d; Standard, buyer 35s 6d; refrigerating Co., sellers, 20s paid up, 26s 3d ; do., 10s paid, 13s 6d;, Gear Co., seller 45s 6d; Huddavt, Parker Co., seller 43s 9d; Union Steam, prof., buyer 20s 3d, seller 20s lOd; Westport Co., seller 39s 3d; Waipa Co., seller 17s 6d; Taringamutu Sawmills Co., buyer 325; Crown Brewery Co., buyer 44s 6d ; Howard, Smith and Co., buyer 52s 6d, seller 555; Ward's Brewery Co., buyer 37s 6d, seller 40s ; Wilson's Cement Co., buyer 25s 9d.