VAGRANT BEFORE COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 66, 18 March 1936, Page 6

VAGRANT BEFORE COURT

CHARGE OF ARSON I Per Press Association. ] PAHIATUA, March 17. Arrested at Napier and brougat to Pahiatua where he was, remanded un a charge of assault on Alarch 6, a single vagrant, Walter Bishup, appeared before justices of the peace yesterday on a fu.ther charge of arson in connection with a sevenroomed nouse owned by Charles Beetham. Hislop made a statement which Detective Bickerdike produced in Court, admitting the assault on a farmer named Hub, which was committed in a fit of rage as the result of an altercation while at the latter’s iarin necking a meal. Accused also made a lull admission of Ca ning ;.ic Bectham house, saying, “1 • lid tins because I felt, fed up with tilings and I had already set fire to two places at. that time and did not j v.orry what J. did.” \ceuscd, pi' ading guilt,'. wa- committed io inn Wellington Supreme Cou’i, for sentence. He was convicted and di.-9cha.ged on the assault charge. “Kunning Shoes” Needed. The visitor’s book at the hoMel at Alilfurd JSound, among a number of amusing remarks, contains the following:—“The scene.y on the track is magnificent, equal to any in tlm country, but someone should, provide running shoes for the sandllic.'. ” Inquest Adjourned. An inquest was opened yesterday morning before Air. J. 11. •Saimuri, .SAI., into the circumstances surrounding i:.e death of Airs. Rawinia Fraser, wu.cli occurred while she was under un anesi thetic administered for t.'ie purpose of . undergoing an operation for eye - trouble. The inqu'.iy established p..»0l i of identity and was adjourned sine die. Protection c; Biros. Ji With r. i.-qu.'.-.t io tire public to as- / <;.a, in presetviag i.iic native birds in . Sl-w Zj. ;:rol, a supplementary Gazette notice on Monday enumerated thosvJ ; which arc protected under a penalty of £25 for each offence. Possession of the * skins, feathers, or eggs of protected native birds is an offence. Native 1 game is restricted to black swan, grey duck, paradise duck, godwit, shoveller r duck, and pukeko, and these may U - shot only when so specified each season s There are 58 birds absolutely protected. - including petrel, plover, the Australian e magpie, heron and native pigeon.