DARTMOOR PRISON MUTINY

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 7

DARTMOOR PRISON MUTINY

CHARGES AGAINST 32 CONVICTS.

PRECAUTIONS IN COURTROOM.

By Telegraph—Press Assn, —Copyright.

Ree. 8.30 p.m. London, March 8. Thirty-two Dartmoor prison convicts to-day paraded' under a strong guard before Superintendent Smith and were formally charged with offences arising out of the mutiny on January 25. Laid under the Malicious Damage Act, some of the charges are collective and others are individual.

The hearing will be taken to-morrow before a magistrate at the prison, when the accused men will be remanded to appear on March 16 at the Town Hall, Primietown, where convicts are constructing a large dock to accommodate all the accused men. There will be a strong guard and the chairs and benches will be bolted to the floor as a precaution against a possible outbreak of violence.

The accused men are still in solitary confinement, except for daily exercise.

AUSTRALIAN SHAREMARKET

BONDS SHOW SHARP RISE. ( —_

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10.30 p.m. Sydney, March 9. On the Stock Exchange bonds experienced a sharp rise, chiefly shortdated bank shares were easier and . industrials were steady. Barrier stocks were weaker. Closing sales were: Commonwealth bonds, 4 per cent., 1938, £94 16s 3d; 4 per cent., 1941, £92 15s; 4 per cent., 1944, £9l 15s; 4 per cent., 1947, £92; 4 per cent., 1950, £B9 15s; 4 per cent., 19'59, £Ol 12s 6d; 4 per cent., 195’5, £B9 17s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £29. ss; National Bank (£llO paid), £ll 10s; Queensla; i Insurance, 455; Colonial Sugar, £4l 15s; Australian Gas A, £5 Is Pi; Tooth’s, 25s 7|d; Toohey’s, 17s 3d; Golds'brough Mort, 24s fid; Winchcombe Carson, 19s Electrolytic Zinc, pref., 23s 4Jd; Broken Hill South, 4'6s; Broken Hill North, 68s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 15s 6d; Zinc Corporation, 29s IOJd. At Melbourne sales were; Commercial Bank of Australia, 15s lOd; Carlton Brewery, 29s 3d; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., 23s 6d; Zinc Corporation, 29s 9d.