Dominion News.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 31 August 1923, Page 6

Dominion News.

Per Press Aesi elation. Auckland, August 31. At the Police Court, Thomas George "Vincent was sentenced to fourteen days' gaol for what the magistrate declared to be an unprovoked assault on Rev. G. W. Smailes, Anglican clergyman. Vincent accosted Mr Smailes at St. Helpers Ray and accused him of having made an insulting remark which he heard, Smailes being the only person wiithin one hundred yards*. He struck Smailie a severe on the right cheek and a blow on the left side of the face breaking his teeth. Compliaihant said defendant accused him, of getting him sacked at St. Sepulchre's Church, which complainant denied. Napier, August 31. John Gartshore Robertspnj aged 18, for arson, Was sentenced to' seven years* reformative treatment. John Leslie Young, Harold Stevenson, Walter Raymond Sutherland, and George William Cameron, for forging and uttering, to four years' reformative on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Alex Lawrence, for perjury, three months' imprisonment. Robert Arthur Dobson, receiving stolen property, two years' imprisonment; Janet' Ah Shing, rogue and vagabond and consorting with reputed thieves and prostitutes, two years' reformative. Daniel O'Sullivan, two years for theft. '" ✓ * ■