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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1923, Page 4

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O [jit TEI.FGRArn —ri)R TRESS ASSOCIATION'.] THE AIiAWA ASSAI’I.T. A I'CK LAND, July 11. At the Supremo Court, Joseph Thurston. a ship's fireman. charged tviili wounding. with intent, the fourth engineer of the Arawa hv hitting him on the head with a spanner, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Air .Justice Herd man said that it was a deliberate, uniustifmhle and cowardly assault, and is a wonder that the- engineer was not killed. Norman Allred O’.Mora was sentenced [a if.ii wars’ hard labour for theft.

ill': \AMSTS SENTENCED. AIT kI.AXI). July 11. Mr Ju'ti;e llerilman sentenced Krlies t Harold Mr bean, who atlem|Hed I ig.-miv. to eighteen months’ hard labour. ' William Arthur Retry. who went through the form of mnriiuge with a woman after hi> wife had deserted him and. his two children was convicted and ordered in come un for sente.u-o if called on. His wife wa» now living with another man. SCOW ASH Oil K. AITKT.AXD. July 11. The mow Altaic is ashore tit the Orewa Heath, through the loss of a rudder. There 0 a fair surf on the beach. The vessel is well ashore. She is owned by Wilson's Portland Cement Coy.

HAXKIU PT'S AIM AIRS. WHI. 1.1 XOTON, July Another debtor is in trouble with the authorities lor allegedly failing to beep proper hooks and obtaining credit without slating he was an undischarged bankrupt, Ormond Herbert Origin well, trading as Fire-lone Tyre Depot. Defendant according to counsel became an undischarged bankrupt at Auckland in 101. A and the case was one in which the creditors were very dissatisfied. He then came here and obtained credit from Hetrick and Co., to the extent of IM.filK). There were two fires on the premises within a few days. The system of bookkeeping was alleged to he lull of leaks and at the present time the debtor owed Hat rick and Co. L'luO. The case was adjourned. THE PRICK OK TKA. !WIM.I.I.Xt I’i'OX. July R>. It is stated here that though the price of tea has been temporarily reduced in eoiiseipience of (lie reduction of duty, there is a shortage of slocks which will presently involve an increase to a substantial amount. It is asserted that so many plantations wetd. out of business during the war that Hmre a 'o no old stocks and the price in C'ey- ! m is per lb. move than it was six months ago. INSTANT K OK I.OXI i KVIT V. WKI.UNoTOX. July I’J. A remarkable instance of longevity was disclosed by the reminiscences i.f All’s Rubin Short, who is only fourteen mooth- short of her hundredth birthday. She landed here in IHI 1 Iron, the sailer I.idy Nugent. Mrs Short's husband died last year at the age of ill and she still has a brother alive aged 90.