HERE AND THERE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16866, 1 February 1929, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

(P.A. Messages.) The Don. -J. G. Cohbe discussed the scheme for a, hanl'or bridge across the Waitemata, within the inner harbor, with a large deputation. He said he would discuss the proopsal with the Hon. E. A. Ransom. His own opinion favored a conference or depart mental inquiry. In the .Supreme Court in Christchurch to-day the following prisoners were sentenced; Walter Grimshaw, 29, single, for indecent assault on a boy and girl, was sentenced to three years’ gaol. His Honor said accused, while canvassing from house to house, had committed a dreadful offence. Albert Edward Herbert Vince, for bigamy, was given two years’ gaol. Mr. Justice Adams said it was the worst case of bigamy he had heard for some time. Accused arrived in New Zealand in 1921 and married the first woman. He then lived with another, and later committed bigamy by marrying a third. Robert Middleton, for indecent assault on his stepdaughter, was sentenced to five years’ gaol. Mrs. Emma Grace Davis, housekeeper to Dr. McClymont, of Havelock, was spending Hie evening .in Blenheim al a friend’s house when, on rising to take her departure shortly nCI or II o’clock, she suddenly expired. The ea use was hen it ilis-

ease. , „ , At the .inquest on the infant found in a sack at the Exhibition Grounds, Dunedin, on Wednesday, evidence was that Ihe child was stillborn. ’I he head was decomposed and there ucte no signs of strangulation.. Ibe coroner found that the child had been stillborn. . During (lie absence in Wellington ol Mr. F.'s. Morion, hi.s warehouse at Onelmnga was broken into and large eases containing milking machines and separators broken open and the contents scattered about. Parts ol separators had been stolen, and also a- quantity of disinfectant. Entrance was effected by the use of a ladder, enabling the burglars to break through the ueatlieiboards. A new sedan car capsized on the main road at Trentham at 1.30 o’clock this morning and was totally destroyed by lire. Apparently tho driver got off the bitumen and the car skidded when he tried to get hack. The car was the property of B. Smith, of Courtenay Place.

Robert Martin, 45, a chemist, was picked up in Lower Cuba street, Wellington, at 11.30 o’clock last night suffering from q fractured skull, concussion, and contused wounds on the forehead. How he became injured is unknown.