STOP PRESS NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17906, 23 July 1926, Page 1

STOP PRESS NEWS.

STOCK EXCKASfGBE. AUCKLAND, July 23. Sales on ’Change.—New Zealand Insurance 42s 6d; N.Z. Farmers’ Fertiliser £4 15s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc 365; Mount Lyell 25a Dd; Kawarau 7s 2d to 7s; Alburnia is lUd to is Gd. WELLINGTON, July 23. Sale Reported.—Staples and C&. H 19s Gd. ' DUNEDIN, July 23. Sales on ’Change.—Kawarau 7s (two), Gs lid.

The name of the woman killed by a . motor-car at Auckland. this morning is Mrs Dooley, a resident of Grey Lynn. NOT A POLICEMAN. AUCKLAND, July 23. A self-style(| detective, Frederick Jackson, was fined £lO, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, this morning on a charge of impersonating a member of (he police force. Senior Detective Hammond: “ Tie’s more, of a skite than anything else.” “Now you hand over those handcuffs to the police,” sternly advised the Magistrate, Air Hunt. Jackson: “I threw them into the rubbish tin, your Worship.” Mr Hunt: “ I don’t believe that.” AFRAID OF FRAUD. WELLINGTON, July 23. The case in which Alice Merry, a widow, was charged with failing to deliver particulars of her deceased son to the Commissioner of taxes was concluded to-day. Mr Tudliope said the woman lost her husband and son within a few weeks of each other. She lived alone in jtn empty house and was apparently obsessed with the idea that there was a conspiracy to defraud her. A solicitor from another centre, who was a member of Parliament and a friend of the defendant, had now persuaded her, and she had agreed to file accounts. Counsel suggested that defendant be ordered to pay costs only. To tiiis course Mr Page agreed. THE ALL BLACKS. MELJiOUItNG, J July 23. The All Black team had a good reception on arrival. The players will be quartered at St Kilda. The teams for to-morrow’s match are: New Zealand—Brown , Elvy, Blake, Uphill iard, Cooke, Sheen, Mill, Porter, Lomas, Kirkpatrick, Alley,. Knight, Stewart, C. Brownlie, Hazlett. Victoria—Backs: Rite, Hamilton, Lane, McNeilage, Ewen, Courland, Peek; forwards: McGowan, Youffa, Spencer, Smith, Wackett, Abbott, Maugham, McCausland. . TENNIS. NEW YORK, July 22. In the quarter finals of the Doubles Tilden and A. L. Weiner (Philadelphia) defeated Harada and Towara 6-4, 4-6, 6-0.