HERE AND THERE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

(P.A. Messages.) In the Blenheim Police Court this morning John Graham, alias John Sinclair, alias Charles George Breeh, 40, a cook, was sentenced to three months' gaol for the theft of shirts, sox, and garters from a. fellow hotel employee. Accused has a lengthy list of convictions, starting in 1920. For tho theft of a suit of clothes, the property of Malcolm Kerr, at Sunnyside station, Martinborough, last month, Eric Nimrod Dixon, 21, was admitted to one year's probation. The. breaker of a window in Parliament Buildings, Reginald Nelson Win« ford. 45, laborer, pleaded guilty _ this morning to drunkenness and committing mischief. The police stated that the accused apparently was inclined towards this offence when under the influence of liquor, as in 1924 he had been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a similar offence nV Kirkcaldie and Stain's shop. He was convicted and ordered to make good the damage, £2 10s, in default seven days' gaoj. A six-roomed house in Smart ro-id. New Plvmouth, owned and occupied by Mr. R.' J. Daisley, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Insurance was £BOO on the house, ami £3OO on the furniture. A laborer, George Menzies, while feeding a circular saw cutting timber at, Redcastle, near Oomaru, met with a serious accident. The saw burst, ami the teeth struck him in the forehead and penetrated the skull. He was sent to hospital, where an operation was found to be necessary. His condition is serious,

The store of Kemp Pros, at Mangero, Auckland, was burglariously entered Inst night, Tho intruders, having failed to effect nn entry by the front door, climbed a verandah post, lifted a sheet of iron from the roof, and entered through a panel in the ceiling. Thefr failed to obtain any money, and regaled themselves with cake's and cigarettes.