NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 855, 29 June 1910, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.— Preas Association.) Nelson, June 28. At the Magistrate's Court, John Etheridge, of the ketch Argus, owned by the Burford Trustees, was finer! .£ls and ,£lO on two charges of sly-grog selling on tho vessel at Puponga. Etheridge had taken cases of beer from Nelrson, and sold the contents to miners and -others. The defence was that the act Iras one of mere carriage and delivery ion behalf of the orderors. Tho magisitrate, in convicting, said the evidence indicated that the owners of tho vessel were not unaware,of the traffic, and had permitted it to go on, as no frieght was ■paid on the beer, which was carried ae captain's stores. Christchurch, June 28. This morning Daisy Olive Moon, a jrouDC woman, was charged at the Magistrates Court with being tho author of a long series of thefts from dwellings. Three charges were mentioned, involving theft of personal apparel, a gold ring, and two gold bangles, of a total 'value of. .£l3. Tho chief detective said" other charges were pending. A remand fov a week was granted, tho girl being conv . mined tq the charge of tho Salvation Army in the meantime. For Eomo months thefts have .been rnPWted with great frequency from houses at bt. Aluans ami Merivalo, and for tjio last five- weeks a detective has been patiently watching the district in tho hope of discovering the offender. Last night, while watching in the- vicinity of a residence that hud previously been robbed, tho detective had his suspicions aroused by the movements of a young woman. He followed Iter into the' grounds of a •house, from which l.he owner was temporarily abfent, and, as she could, not givo a satisfactory account of her presciico thorp, lie arrested lior. Sojno 30 houses have bcnn entered by a thief or thieves in tlio district, and'it is uj-.iler-Btoo<l that Hip polio* have now discovered .a large quantity of the goods stolen.