NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1849, 8 September 1913, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

l (By Mograph—Preei Association.) 4 L , [ FIRE PROSECUTION. 3 Hastings, September 6. 3 Hearing was concluded a,t the Magisi trato's Court to-day of a caso in which i Patrick Macnamara was charged with— . (1) committing arson by sotting; fire to i a dwelling in Treaclo Lane, Hastings, on August li; and (2) with making a false , declaration relatiug to cortain goods in--3 sured in the State Office for £100, and . partly destroyed and damaged. He had a declared that there was no other insurance, and that certain effects left out , in the schcdulo were destroyed or dam- . aged. Also that the valuo of the goods , destroyed and damaged was £143 12s. i It was alleged that ho know that theso declarations wero false. In conjunction r with Nellie Wells, Macnamara was also 3 charged with conspiring to defraud the J Gfuardian Assurance Company, Limited, r. in effecting an insurance against loss by l fire in respect of certain eii'eots. Twenty--9 one witnesses were called for the prose- , cution. The ohargo of conspiracy was - dismissed. On the othor charges Mac- . namara was committed for trial at the - Supreme Court, Napier. j THE LABOUR SPLIT. ' Invorcargill, September 7. J At a meeting of the Southland Lai bour Council letters wero received from r tho Housewives', Union and Bootmakers' 3 Union withdrawing from affiliation as s tho outcome of the split in tho local r labour ranks since the unity conference. 0 _ SUPREME COURT. Wanganui, Septomßer 0. A man named Bailey was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each of two charges of attempted assault on children j Harvey to two years' for theft 3 from a room-mate in an hotel;' two , youths named Batlrin for forgery were - ordered to como up for sentence when a called upon. \ 1 SENTENCES FOR THEFT. 1 Blenheim, September 6. t William Black and Phillip Joseph - Newport, for thefts at Dalgety's- store, - were sentenced this morning to three , months' imprisonment. • THE COURTS—A PROTEST. 5 Auckland, September 6. The following petition to tho Mayor 1 is being numerously signed: "Wo beg 1 to request you at once to convene a • public meeting to consider the question 6 of tho administration of justice in the ■ Supreme Court of this city and ■ dis- > trict." 7 3 BRIEF MENTION. Christchurch, September 6. At the Supremo Court, in the caso j Scott v. Scott, an application for divorce, a. verdict was given for respond- ; ent. r On Newtown Park a team of chemists beat Christchurch Chemists by threo i points to nil. Wellington's try was ! scored by Alridge. In the ovening tlio l visitors were ontertained' at dinner at f the New Zealander Hotel. - i '