TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

(per press association.- copyright.]

FOOT AMPUTATED

AUCKLAND, August 16. While attempting to board a moving tram-car this morning in Dominion Road, a young man named Ernest Good how had his foot badly crushed. The car was just slowing down, but, in his hurry Goodhew missed his hold and the wheels passed over his left foot. He was sent to the hospital where the foot, which was practically cut oil' through tho accident was amputated. The patient is now doing satisfactorily. IMPRISONED for theft. AUCKLAND, August 14.. At tho Supreme Court to-day Louis Von Eimen confessed to a series of extensive thefts from shopkeepers, and was sentenced to seven' years’ reformative treatment. Alfred George Clegg, convicted for breaking, entering, and theft, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. J

MEAT MONOPOLY. WELLINGTON, August 17. In the course of his remarks at the annual meeting of the Wellington Meat Export Company to-day, the Chairman (.nr K. Elgar), said in reference to the American proposals, that there were sufficient works in New Zealand providing they were run to their full capacity to deal with a. year’s output of meat in two months. There were other works being erected and the suggestion that producers could make use of the American monopoly in this respect was of little use.. It was also one thing to make use of a monopoly and quite another to have it make use of you. By selling 0.1. F. as in the past the producers would be benefiting themselves, but to give . a monopoly of the license asked for would only mean that more machinery and plant would be provided in a direction that was already overdone.

SUPREME COURT. TIMARU, August 17. At the Supreme Court this afternoon H. McLauelilan was found guilty of stealing a bicycle at Ashburton. He was given the benefit of bis impression that it was abandoned property, and was fined £ls to cover the cost of the prosecution. L. G. Lyne, who was placed under probation on August 4th, for forgery and uttering cheques, was found guilty of stealing money on 11, and sentenced to three -years’ reformatory treatment.

PROFESSIONAL CONTEST. AUCKLAND, August 16 A light-weight boxing contest for £2OO between J Keenan (Auckland), and A. .Tarvie (Adelaide), at the Town Hall, was won by Keenan,, Jarvis being disqualified in the fifteenth round for persistently holding apd hitting when ordered to break. The contest was very evenly waged, and there was little between the pair on points when Jarvis was disqualified, though Keenan was the stronger.

FORGERY’ CHARGES

DUNEDIN, August 14

This afternoon detectives arrested Peter James Innes and Ernest Percival Greenwood, (wo clerks employed in the Defence. Office on charges of forgery. Innes was charged that on Am gust 3rd. last, he forged a document purporting to lie a Defence,,. voucher signed by Gavin Melville Abbot, for the sum of 14s Id, and caused Owen Patrick MeCuignn to net upon it as though it were genuine. Against Greenwood the charge laid is that, on June 7th., he forged a document of the same kind, purporting to bo signed by Joseph H. W. Shephert. the sum involved being £7 10s.

A SALUTARY FINE. TIMARU, This Day

At the Supreme Court Hugh McLachlan, for theft of a bicycle at Ashburton was finoc} £7.