INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13901, 12 May 1909, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, May 11. Fred Bradley and Ernest James McCartney were charged at the Police Court with breaking and entering the shop of "William "Waller of Taumarunui, and stealing -watches and brooches, etc., rained at £IOO. James King was charged with having received the jewellery knowing that it was stolen. "William Tatton was charged with receiving watches, etc. valued at £lO, the property of "Waller knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained. Accused were remanded for a week, Tatton being admitted to bail in one surety of £IOO and two of £SO each. NAPIER, May 11. Arthur Frake, who pleaded guilty to stealing a cheque and forging the endorsement to the same, was committed to the "Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. James A. Crooks was remanded on a charge of bigamy, to appear at Dannevirks on May 10th. It is alleged that accused was first married at Norsewood, where he deserted his wife some eight or nine years ago. Enquiries were continually instituted for him, and he was at length located at "Waimangaroa, near Granitv, on the West Coast, where ho was found living with his second wife, whom, it is alleged, he married some four or live years ago. Robert James Howard was charged with permitting gambling on his licensed premises by allowing cards to be played for drinks. The Magistrate said the evidence as presented by the police was too inconclusive, and lie did not feel justified in entering a conviction. Hjs "Worship concluded, "Cards have been played in this hotel by a boy of 15 years of age. In my opinion this has been established. I can only say that the licensee who harbours a boy of 15 years around his hotel is not fit to hold a license. "With these remarks I dismiss the information."

INVERCARGILL, May 11

At the Bluff yesterday, the chief steward of the s.s. Opawa was arrested on a charge of smuggling boots into the Dominion.

The Hospital Trust to-niglit considered a complaint that a patient had been allowed to go unattended, to a dentist's.® The Trust resolved thatafter hearing the evidence they thought that the treatment received by Selwood (the patient) whilst in the hospital was all right, bat that it would have been better if the patient had not been sent to the dentist to liave his teeth extracted, the doctor to be asked to be more careful in future in allowing patients to go out. Some feeling was shown at the meeting.