NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 16

NELSON NEWS

HAWKE CUP MATCH

(From Our Own Correspondent.) NELSON, 9th December.

Mr. Justice Ostler will preside at the Supreme Court sessions, which commence to-morrow.

Mr. T. E. 2tfaunsel, S.M., gave reserved decision in a civil action, Thomas Newman v. William G. Parkes, a claim for £13 damages for the loss of two dogs alleged to have been shot by defendant. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £11 10s, costs £7 11s. James Eussell, an elderly man, for being found drunk in Anzae Park, and for breaking glass in the reserve, was fined 5s and £1, in default seven days' imprisonment. For allowing a horse to stray in Brook street, I<\ Sowman was fined 10s, costs 10s. For parkiug his car on the wrong side of the street, Henry Shine waa fined 10s, costs 10s. Clarence E. Taylor, who did not appear, was charged with driving a motor-cycle which had no horn and no silencer, and also with driving without a license. A fine of £1, costs 12s, was imposed on the second charge; 10s, costs 12s, on the first, and ss, costs 12s, on the third. In the preliminary Hawke Cup match, which Marlborough abandoned in favour of Nelson, Nelson made 383 in the first inninga. Marlborough went to the wickets at 4 o 'clock on Saturday afternoon, and were all out at 5 p.m. for 81 runs, J. Newman taking three wickets for' 18 runs, N. Hawkes five for 24, and E. E. Neale one for 18. Marlborough followed on, and when stumps were drawn had eight wickets down for 100 runs. Bowling, Ealfe took one wicket for 15 runs, Eden one for 6 (off eight overs), Jenkins none for 7, Hawkes one for i, Neale one for 16, J. Newman two for 26, Langbein two for 15, In the Wastney Shooting Cup competition fired on the Wakapuaka range on Saturday by the Nelson Defence Rifle Club, W. A. Kenning, with 32 at 300 32 at 500, and 31 at 600 yards, gained the verdict for the day, followed closely by L. Dixon with 29, 34, 31, handicap 1—95; H. V. Searle, 32, 31, 31—94 was in third place. The death of Mrs. E. Pranzen removes another of Nelson's band of early settlers. Born at Curry Eivel, Somerset • (England), tho late Mrs. Franzen was 13 years old when she arrived in New Zealand with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Small, in the ship Queen of the Avon. Residing first at Stoke, the family afterwards made their home in Upper Toi Toi Valley. Following on her marriage to Mr. Burchard Fran2en they established and successfully earned on the well-known business of B Franzen at Port Nelson, and after her husband's death Mrs. Franzc* carried on until she disposed of t>» business