NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(BY TELEGBAFH—PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) CHARGE OF MURDER. ' 1 Wsstport, July 9. William Connolly was to-day. charged before Mr. Rawson, S.M., on . the information of W. G. M'Donald (solicitor for Halinen and Andersen), with the murder of Ernest John Burke. _ Connelly was also charged, on the information ,of Haakon Haakonson (a witness in the murder case), with perjury on sis counts covering material points in his evidence in the lower court in the murder charge. Both informations were adjourned for a week on the application of the prosecution, to get Halinen and Andersen down from Wellington, where, they are now- serving sentence,' to give evidence. NO ACCOMMODATION, FOR LAW.BREAKERS. ' . .'- Cisborne, July 9. The urgent_ necessity for more gaol accommodation is. exemplified by the fact that the cells are full, and the police . aro being put to no little inconvenience. in having to make shako-downs foi; law-breakers. . ~ SEATS AT. THEATRES. ■?' Chrfstohurch, July 9. , A "Truth"; representative yesterday sought. the opinions of theatrical managors on the municipal enactment that in local places of amusement every seat in the house shall bo numbered, and that patron on paying for admission shall be given a ticket bearing a number corresponding with the seat he shall occupy. Four managers were interviewed, and they all stated that the by-law'would be unworkable. ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM GAOL. Christciiurch, July 8. • The prisMW, : Wm. Bell, who, while serving a term of imprisonment for stealing a bicycle, made two attemps to escape from gaol was brought before the Court this morning. Mr. Cleary,' Governor of the Gaol, said that Bell had completed his sentence, and was to be discharged to-day. The Magistrate said tho accused was evidently a man of weak intellect, and had • boon influenced,, by criminals a good deal worse than ho was. He would be convicted and discharged. ALLEGED UNLAWFUL PAWNING. DunetJln, July 8. ' Owen Patrick Brosnahan was committed for trial this morning on a charge of unlawfully pawning jowellory. It is alleged that accused, who was hard up, obtainod £25 worth of jowellory from a Tapanui tradesman for the purposo of hawking it' for sale, but pawned £6 worth in Dunedin, and tho rest is missing. A LAW-ABIDING CITY. . Auckland, July 8. Auckland is freer of crime at tho present moment' than at almost any poriod of its history. Tho statement is mado on tho authority of the polico. During tho last few weeks thero have been no, really serious cases before tho Magistrate', and very fow cases in comparison with tho population of even a minor character. Auckland's crime record, the police state, is a better ono than that of Wellington, comparing oven favourably with that of Dnnedin, tho nearly crimeless city of tho Dominion. NEWS IN BRIEF. Chrlstchurcii, July 8. At Lyttelton to-day Samuel 'Brooking, licensee of the Saxon Hotel, Lyttelton, was fined 40s. for refusing accommodation witlibut valid reason to'Alex. Collie on July 5. '5,