TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16500, 18 November 1927, Page 9

TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

(P.A. Messages). Beautiful weather favored People's Day at tho Egmont show yesterday. The attendance was about 8000. Tho dead body of Walter Oldham, 70, was found in a lavatory in the Windsor private hotel, Christchurch, yesterday. Oldham was a boarder at the hotel. The will c'f the late Mrs. P. F. Fryer, of Christchurch, iucluded bequests ot £2OO to the Church Missionary Society, £250 to tho Church Property Trustees for various specified purposes, and £SO to the Plunket Society. The Waikato A. and P. Association's annual show at Hamilton concluded yesterday with .a record attendance. The U-omiiiiou jumping competition of £IOO was won by Mrs. 0 Merrin's Two Step. The award for the champion hunter went to 11. E. Porrit's Ginger Mick. William Roy MacDonald, formerly manager of the Guardian Assurance Co.. Christchurch, was found guilty in the Supreme Court in Christchurch yesterday of the theft of £215. He had been charged with the theft of £6<ls. When Ernest Shalton, of 34, Hardingo road, Napier, attempted to pass between a Government bus and a car on the Awatoto road last night, he became jammed and struck tho car, whose driver had no warning of tho cyclist's presence, as tho .latter shot out 'from behind the bus. Shalton was sent to the Napier hospital with a fractured wrist and facial injuries. His conditon is not. serious. Assault*, cuusing actual bodily harm and robbery with violence, were charges preferred against Marjorie Ollivcr aud Anker Jacob Charles Jensou in the Christchurch Police Court yesterday. Crown witnesses stated that the two accused arrived from Wellington on October 6 aud after partaking freely of liquor, they went to a house of one, Wiuson, in St. Albans. There Jensen thought he had been robbed of £9O, and ho attacked Wilson and his wife, robbing Wilson of £3 19s. Actually, Jenson had not lost tho money, it having been carried in his sock, but owing to too much liquor he had forgotten where it was. Ollivcr, who was alleged to be Jensen's accomplice, was acquitted. Jensen was found guilty of common assault. By Governor-General's Messages in the House last night, the Public Service Amendment Bill, and the Railway Amendment Bill were introduced and read a first time. In connection with tho former Bill, the Prime Minister said he would not press the committee stage until the Public Service Association had the opportunity of considering the clauses of tho Bill. The Prime Minister also stated that the Railway Bill was similar to tho P. and T. Bill, and was an endeavor to bring all branches of the Public Service into line which would be a very good thing. The Bailway Bill was then read a socond time and referred to the Railway Committee, and the House rose at midnight.