SLY GROG SELLING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12257, 3 July 1909, Page 5

SLY GROG SELLING

DUNEDIN, July 2. Mary, Tansey, for sly-grog selling, wasfined this morning £*20. It was stated in evidence that in 33 weeks 793 gallons - of draught beer and 134 dozen bottles of beer-had ; been supplied to Tansev's licuseV formerly the Coach and HorsesHotel. Annie-Tansey, a daughter of the former accused, was lined 40s for selling liquor. r.< ■

WELLINGTON, July 2. At the- Magistrate's Court to-day,,. „ James -Hemingway, who is now serving.; three years' imprisonment for. extensive robberies in Wellington, was remanded till Wednesday on charges of" breaking into the premises of FandelF • and Phillips, in September, 1907, and stealing jewellery and fancy! goods, worth. £50, and in the same month breaking into C. H. Dickerson's warehouse and stealing tweed and clothingworth £10.

Michael ;Bremian, an elderly man,.. Mas remanded until Wednesday on charges;of breaking into the Rev. D... Johnson's 'residence and stealing a greenstone1 knife (worth £1) and three - .sovereigns on June 28th last, and at the same-tiniß breaking into St. Mark's Anglican Church, Wellington, and steal--ing £18" and certain other articles.

.■•-■'■■/-'■■■■ NAPIER, July 2. In the Supreme Court, to-day, before Mr Justice Chapman and a special ' jury' of twelve, the hearing wa^3 concluded of, the case in which William Henry LeaiV. of Hastings,- commission .agent, .sued Dr. Thomas McKibbin. of" that town';f6r £1000 damages for alleged negligent treatment of plaintiff's wife, wlio; had died from puerperal septioamert. after ' confinement. The witneeses included a number of medical men. - ; ' . '■ .Defendant said he had had 93 confinement cases ill the year 1908, and only one death," which was the subject of the present action,..

Three other doctors called for the defence said that the defendant's treatment of the case was correct.

The' jury, after 15 minutes' retirement, returned a verdict for tlie defendant.

His 'Honour1 entered up Judgment for defendant accordingly, with costs. ■ v