TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1923, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[bv TELEGRAPH—TER PRESS ASSOCIATION'] INFANT’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, March 9. At the inquest on the body of the child found at Stanley Bay beach on February 19th.. it was stated the parentage had not been traced. There were no marks on the skin indicating violence. The body had not been long in the water. Death had occurred 24 to 48 hours previously. The Coroner returned a -verdict from asphyxiating, following suffocation. CHILD MURDER CASK. WELLINGTON March 9. Minnie King, a. married woman, gave evidence regarding the birth of Lester’s child at the house of witness. The child was subsequently taken away. 'Hie male accused agreed to pay for witness’s attendance on Lester. He did not pay the full amount, but paid £4 or (Jo. When witness later asked Cooper bow the child was getting on be said it was doing fine. Cooper had also itt- ( formed witness the people who wanted to adopt a child would not do so. as the birth had been notified. Effie Muriel Adams gave evidence about taking the child to .Johnsonville. She went out l>.v the train with Lester, while the male accused proceeded i,y nto tor cycle-. At Johnsonville. Airs Cooper was given the child. Cooper suggested Lester should go on the back ’ of his motor bike to Nowlands. He would then go hack to AL's Cooper aml the baby. The witness then returned to Wellington hv train. The male accused had told tier someone was waiting at Newlands to take the baby away that night. Witness was pail Iter expenses by ('noper. Detective McLennan gave details ol the interview- with accused who said In did not know where the child was and had nothing to do with it- Accused ( admitted meeting Lester and another wom.-in with the baby on Jolinsoiiville station, lie said he took Lester on bis motor-bike to his home at New lands. and thought the other woman must have rcurued to Wellington with the j baby. i

DOMINION FINANCE... WELLIN'.TON. -March 8. The following .statement regarding - the finances of the, Dominion for the current, financial year was issued by the IVcinier to-day. Ill l ' total reveinq. lor III" eleven mouth* elided 20th Fi hniary was 922.1411.18(1. against a total for the corresponding period of the previous year of £2,9.22(1.5!)| ;an increase of £2.213.388. The expenditure fur lit, corresponding period of tho previous year was 925.042.314. showing a decrease this year of £2,4.,4,9, I. Inking the two together there was an improvement. of ,94 .(>(l7, lot). The effect of savings and red net ions in < xpeiiditurc y. as indicated by these figures, but in I order to stabilise ti e position and keep (be national expenditure within 1 InI national income, so as to enab.h us to reduce taxation, a continuance of strict si,pen ision of spending power essentia!. I COURT EASES. : WELLING I ON, Mat'd, 9 j Etgi,* v,mills, ties,.filled ~l tlic larrikin I y pe. "or" caeb fined 9-‘ bn | living false lire alarms. The I’rol,alien j Oflieor said that they were of Ihe type wlm stood at simp windows and passed I indecent remarks in pedestrians. I lie., . needed many rap- over tin* knuckles, j The Magistrate ordered the money to lie deducted from ibeir pocket money ’ :,t the rate ~t As weekly, and made restrict inns regarding ibeir conduct. ! for unlawfully professing to , iirr.v oil 1 business under the patronage ol the j Governor-General, lames lie!!, a tailor. | ami Robert .Mart'll, colour merchant i were lined -Ins: and Herbert Stan- . bridge, fruiterer. 295. at the Court I m-uay. ALLEGED Til EFT. AN ARRK-T MADE. WELLINGTON. March If) i | Yesterday the police arrested a. mail ! named William Aleßaiu for whom they | have been .searelting lur some lime, in I coum-eiioii with the theft of goods from ! Wellington Woollen Guy. It will he j reiiiemhcrotl that the Secret a rv’s mntor ! (;ir v :;s , t<ili>ii from tho passage w ay in : which it bad been left. ! < was found j filter at Island Bav. In a case at the ! New Zealand Extircss C„v. the police : found two neat packages of goods ready to he sent a certain address. ; The contents of the packages proved to Ibe all tlie missing goods ami more j which had not been reported. The ! total value of them is said to fi." over i 9201). In possession oi MeHnoi whoii ! he was arrested, was found a lead"’! rei viilver. A TRAM. fi'ATAfJTY. • AUCKLAND. March 9. : Aliss .Maggie Wilson, aged 24. uied j at the Hospital to-dnv as the result of I injuries received by a. 101 l from a niov- ! ing tfiimear yesterday. Deceased and | her mother, who reside at Uaeroa. both ! stepped off the front platform of the. ! ear just after leaving a slopping place. ! Both felt. Afrs Wilson was unhurt, it i stated they intended visiting Mr A\ilI son in a private hospital. ’ Mr G. A. Wilson, father ol .Margaret Wilson, the train accident victim died, this morning.