LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16807, 21 November 1928, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

(P.A. Messages.) A spectacular lire was witnessed in Masterton last night, when a large) wooden building, owned by it. 11. Daniel, was burnt to the ground. The. structure stood on a section adjacent to the town, but there were no other buildings in the vicinity. The brigade was helpless, as Ihe lire had a strong hold when the alarm was given. The building was used for storage purposes, hut’ the exact nature of the contents was not known. The insurances are not ascertainable.

The- New Zealand architect (Mr. 8. Hurst Scager’s) invention of a light scheme which removes as far as possible all reflection from glasses in picture frames, was recently adopted for one room in the Tate Gallery, which i.s pronounced to he the best lighted room in Europe. It has also been installed in the Spring Gardens Gallery. In a. competition for the. Art Gallery and .the Town Hall at -Southampton, the, winning- design had lighting based on this principle. The Supreme- Court at Palmerston North was occupied! yesterday with the retrial of Robert McConkey, carpenter, employed at the-- Aorangi freezing works, on. a charge of indecent assault on his stepdaughter under 16 years of age, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. At the previous trial the jury found a verdict of guilty, but the Court of Appeal ordered a. retrial on the grounds that certain evidence for the prosecution had been called after the Crown case had closed. A warrant for the arrest of HectorRobert Malcolm, an Auckland solicitor, was signed yesterday. It is understood he has left Auckland, and that a total of several hundred pounds is involved. In the Supreme Court last week, on the application of a creditor, the official assignee was appointed interim receiver in the estate, pending the bearing of a petition to adjudicate Malcolm bankrupt. To the meantime, the official assignee has seised the books and other contents (if Malcolm’s office.

At. the Supreme Court, in Invercargill yesterday Allen Edward Tubman. 20, charged with fraudulently stating that he, had posted a letter containing money, whereas, in fact, he bad not posted it, appeared for sentence. Tubman had purchased a motor-cycle on a time-pur-chase agreement, arid as life was unable to pay the instalments on it lie claimed to have posted the amount, when lie had not done so. Accused' was sentenced to 12 months in a. Borstal, institution.