TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1922, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[by TELEGRAPH rER PRESS association]

SEAMAN’S DEATH. DUNEDIN, June 15

M. Borthwick, a greaer on the Tniron. died yesterday from injuries received in falling down the foredeck ladder. He was a. Londoner aged 52 years.

MORE BURGLARY CASES. AUCKLAND, June 14

Five young men, whose exploits of | "breaking -and entering in the PonsonIby district during May revealed reI markable depravity, appeared before ' Mr Justice Stringer at the Supreme ! Court. The Judge commented that I Henry John Tisdale appeared to be on 1 a different footing from his four part- ! ncrs-in-crime as he had previously undergone reformative treatment. The Judge sentenced Tisdale to two months imprionment followed by not more than two years’ reformative detention. • 'With regard to the others His TTon- ' our commented that their exploits were more in the nature of a youthful escapades than crime. He could accept the probation officer’s recommendation ' and place Colin J. Grant, Douglas Sorden. .Tnme s .7. Simpson and Swinburne Hadley, each upon probation for three years and ordered them to pay costs. WHISKY MAKERS’ CASIO. NELSON, June 14. 1 Leonard IT. Thompson (who pleaded guiltv in the Lower ' Court!, and Henry Lord alias Harold Lloyd ware found guilty of conspiring to defraud. | and were sentenced to three imprisonment. Lord is now serving To months’ and Thomason nine months for keeping an illicit still. The judge said he could not, make their sentences commence at the termination of the ones the accused were already serving, inasmuch as they were imposed by a Magistrate, and not by the Supreme Court. He would treat the noousotl ns olready having served one month. lord would be sentenced to three months’ hard labour (having 17 months to serve!, and Thom ami to three months’ bard labour (making 11 months to serve.! DKTFCTTVE’S CONDITION. HAMILTON. June 74. 1 Detective Lambert. tliO victim of last 1 week’s shooting, is vo|>orted to be doing, verv well, a.nd there is every prosne-t of bis recovery. The bullet is still in liis body. butter price raised. CHRISTCHURCH. Juno 14. The price of butter has been further advanced by' the factories Id per lb. The grocers have now accordingly increased the retail price from Is 8d to Ts Od per lb. A hardening in the London market is the reason ascribed by the factories for the readjustment of the prices in Canterbury on a higher basis.