TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1919, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

CFKk. PJ'ESS ASSOCIATION. — COPYBIGHT. 1 :• A WARNING. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 18. Gordon Tweedie, a returned soldier was convicted at the Magistrate’s Court and ordered to copie up for sentence when palled upon, for false representation to the Canterbury Repatriation Board, jn order to obtain an advance to ptart a hairdresser and tobacconists business. The map stated he had experience, but it was discovered later thatf he had nqnp, having been a blacksmith, the latter confession being made when Twecdip presented a dpetor’s certificate that he was suffering from neurasthenia. It was then discovered that the business; was a failure. The case was brought as a warning, the Board not pressing for a penalty. BUTCHERS STRIKE. AUCKLAND, November 18. The two butchers on strike who were arrested during a disturbance yesterday and' were subsequently bailed put by the Secretary of . the Butchers Ur, ion, were to-day charged with “using insulting language with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, 1 ' and “that they had wrongfully watched a shop with intent to prevent a man from doing what he had a legal right to do, namely, working.” T}iere was a large gathering of the strikers in the precincts of the court. A somewhat warm discussion took place between the Magistrate and counsel for the two men, in regard to a request made by counsel for an adjournment of the cases.

This was opposed by the police. .Eventually the case was adjourned, until the afternoon, when fines of £5 were imposed for the charge relating to a breach of the peace. The other charge was adjourned for a week.

ACCIDENT TO THE KARORI. DUNEDIN, November 18

The collier Karori, while entering the harbour to-day from Newcastle touched a sand hank. She is berthed and reported to be making water fast. Tjie tug “Plucky” brought a hulk alongside the Karori at 5j p.m. The work of installing a pumping apparatus is now in progress. It is expected to be s -in operation at 6 a.m. to-morrow. The ships’ hull is now resting on tl e butjtom of the harboiir, until sufficient water is pumped out to enable her to float. The extent of the damage has not been ascertained.

CHARGE OF THEFT. WELLINGTON, Nov. 17

Andrew Douthart, a Government employee pleaded guilty to stealing the sum of £lO Is Id, the property of Thomas Dellaca, storekeeper, Reefton. The facts as outlined by Chief-Detective Boddam and Detective-Sergt. Rawle, (who obtained a statement from accused), were that Douthart went to Reefton to spend his annual leave, and being a miner embraced the opportunity to accept a position in the Globe mine. He received -vouchej's for £l3 13s for three weeks’ work ,and discharged a debt of £1 15s he owed Dellaca by presenting one of Bis wage vouchers. Deb laca c ashed all the vouchers received by. the accused except one for £1 6s, which Douthart cashed at the mine office the following day. When in the office the clerk informed him that there was other money dWe to him and paid him altogether the sum of £ll 17s. He knew he was not entitled to the money, as Bellaca had cashed some of the vouchers for him, hut he had not the moral courage to return tlfe money he received from the store-keeper. The accused had a considerable sum of money in tho Post Office Savings Bank. Mr W. Perry, who appeared for the accused, said Douthart had previously borne an unblemished character. He was anxious! to repay the money and counsel had the amount in hand. The Commissioner of the department where the defendant was employed was willing to take him back again, and so counsel asked that leniency might be extended. The defendant was convicted and fined £ls, in default to be imprisoned for one month, and to refund the money received from Dellaca.