TELEGRAMS.
Per Press Association. —.C/opyrigbt. Supreme CourtAUCKLAND, May 23rd. In the Supreme Court John Hall, alias John R. Smith pleaded guilty -fco bigamy and making a false declaration) and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each charge, senteaceo %o be concurrent. William Reid was found guilty oi stealing a sheep and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. A half-cast iSamoan youth, described as a sexual degenerate , who pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a little girl and discharging a firearm at the girl’s father was committed to Sumham.
Breach of Gaming Act. Wellington, May 25 A Wellington firm to commemorate the openiog of its new premises exhibited a notice in a shop window stating that it would give a War Loan certificate to every hundredth customer recorded in the cash register. Information under the Gaming Act was laid and in the Magistrate’s Court on December Bth last the firm was charged with commencing a lottery. Mrßeid S.M. reserved his decision and gave judgment to-day- He said that he was satisfied that defendants had commenced a lottery and ioflioted a fine of 40/ and costs.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19170526.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1917, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
183TELEGRAMS. Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1917, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in