DOMINION NEWS.
HOMESTEAD DESTROYED. ;By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Monday. The hcmcstcacl of J. R. Murphy at Tangihau station was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Very little was saved. *" GUILTY OF FRAUD. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Archibald Frederick George Brooks to-day pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to obtain a car valued at £425 from the Nash New Zealand Motors by fraud. The police gave evidence that accused gave the mime of E. M. Stretton and his address as Ashburton. Accused was committed for sentence, and remanded to Invercargill on a charge of false pretences. A RECORD. WANGANUI, Tuesday. The four-masted American schooner, Margaret Sterling arrived from New Plymouth, corning in at dead neap drawing 20 feet, which constitutes a record for the deepest daughtcd ship to come in to Wanganui. FINED £2O. WHAKATANE, Tuesday. At the Police Court yesterday a young man Edward Stewart, was charged with being drunk while, in charge of a motor ear. On Saturday night at eleven o'clock his car collided with another car and a woman passenger in the latter was slightly injured. The defendant was convicted and fined £2O.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16841, 6 July 1926, Page 5
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185DOMINION NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16841, 6 July 1926, Page 5
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