THE COURTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18285, 7 June 1929, Page 7

THE COURTS.

SHOWMAN FINED. By Telegraxih—Pi'w? Association. WAIPUKURAU, June 6. Wilfred James Woods, a travelling showman, who appeared before Mr Mowlem, S.M., at Waipawa to-day, was convicted and fined £5 for playing a game of chance with the aid of a table cloth and darts in the main street at Tikokino on. March 29 last. SeniorSergeant Dempsey, who prosecuted, contended that the game was one of chance and not of skill. UNOFFICIAL PROGRAMME. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June o. The publisher of an unofficial sports programme, Fred Gaskill, was prosecuted at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, the case being a test one, and the first of its kind in New Zealand. It was alleged that Gaskill published a programme of the Rugby football matches without the express permission of the Canterbury Rugby Union, and it was stated that Gaskill had offended in ignorance of the law. He was convicted and ordered to pay costs. FALSE PRETENCES. I By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 6. Corneille Hubert de May Dalkemado who was sentenced to 18 months bar 1 labour in the Supreme Court for false pretences, to-day got a term of thrte months from the Magistrate (Mr E. Page) for the theft of a. motor tvr? valued at £2 16s. the property of Williams and Adams Ltd., the term to be served at the expiration of the presentterm. BIGAMY. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND. June 6. At the Police Court, Wilfred Minty, chief stoker on the Veronica, admitted that he went through the form of marriage with Winifred Elizabeth Neithe, at Ponsonbv on December 26, 1026, when he had a wife and five children in England. Ho was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence. ESCAPEES CAPTURED. By Telegraph—Press Association. TAUMARUNUI, This Day Two prisoners, Richard Howe and Harry Edmund Frost, who escaped from the prison camp at Oio on Monday afternoon, were arrested at Ngapuke. 11 miles from Manunui last evening, by Warders Baird and O’Reilly.