DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

LUV TELEGRAPH— PEII PRESS ASSOCIATION.' Till-: lIAYNE CASK. DFXHDTN. Aug 8. Rosina Sarah Afaclic. a well-known social worker and member of the Hospital Hoard was charged at the Supreme Court to-day that she attempted to dissuade by threats, bribe or other corrupt means, a witness from giving evidence in the ease against James Reynolds llayne and Elizabeth Simpson Inglis and that she wilfully attempted to obstruct, pervert, and defeat tbe Court of Justice by attempting to dissuade the same witness from giving evidence against Elizabeth Simpson Inglis. Evidence similar to that in the lower Court was given. The defence was a complete denial of the allegations. Evidence was given by the accused and another woman whom the accused met outside the hospital. The jury was addressed, and it was submitted the Crown evidence was unsatisfactory. SUPREME COURT. AFCKI AX I) SENTENCES. AUCKLAND, Aug 8. At the Supreme Court Robert Allan Cotton was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment and ordered one flogging of ten strokes on seven charges of indecent assaults on males. Air .Justice Stringer stilted that he could not conceive of a case presenting worse features and it was rpiite impossible to foresee the injuries that may have been done by his filthy practice on the menial and physical health of the victims. Reginald Trevor and Leonard Richard Cunningham, for conspiring to defraud country visitors of .220, the former was placed on probation for three years and ordered to make restitution and prohibited from visiting the races. Cunningham, with a previous cnnvictie.il in Australia, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. Angus Taylor, aged 21, for indecent assault. was sentenced to twelve mouths imprisonment. John Buckley for breaking, entering and theft, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Reynold Pit tan for attempted breaking, entering and theft, and a separate charge of theft, was sentenced to two \ears' hard labour.

BODY IDENTIFIED

AUCKLAND. Aug. 8,

The body found in the harbour has been identified as that of John Carrington. a returned soldier, who has been missing from home since Friday. He leaves a wife and children. He had been troubled over the piirclm.se of a house and had talked of suicide.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. WELLINGTON. Aug. I. A well-known wrestler. Theodore Cudding. appeared before Mr F. Page. "CM., in the Court on a charge of conspiring with Mainlined Ali Sunni, another prominent wrestler at Auckland, to deirnad John Scnombe and Annie Sereonihe of the Mini of £305. (bidding is alleged to have commitled the olfeucc on May 21st. On the application of Chief Detective Kemp, who explained that the man had only been arrested the precious day. he was remanded to appear at Auckland tomorrow. The licensed was not represented by counsel, and hail was not applied for.

COM MGR Dl I'TKTI/TIKS. ( IlltlstTCfll'RCM. Aug. 8. At to-day’s meeting of the Christchnreh Presbytery. it was declared:‘‘Some of the theological students at Dunedin, are practically starving!” That was the startling statement made by the Rev. -T. Paterson to the Presbytery. The l’ey Paterson said that at present Knox College, Dunedin, was full. There was not a theological eolwege in Australasia, and hardly one in Scotland, which had more' students, and yet some of those students were in such straitened circumstances that they were practically starving. There was praGaily no money to give them to live'. Thev were seriously up against it. The lirst need of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand was to sec that its home lease was strengthened. The Rev. Paterson s.-dd he was heartily in favour of foreign missions, but the time had come when the Church had to call a leak, and strengthen the work in New Zealand. Air Paterson intimated he woidtl move the' following overture to the General Assembly, at next meeting of the Presbytery : “ft is hereby overtured by tilt' Presbytery ol ( bristcbnrvli to the General Assembly to lake into consideration tin* grow ing demands ini our congregations from the budget system. which was getting beyond the linaueial possibilities of many, especi;i]!v new charges not yel provided with tlioir own necessary equipment. and also tht' need of inising a fund adequately to endow our own theological college.”

AN Af’CtrrTTAl

DENEDIX. Aug. M At the (supreme Court to-day, Hositin Sarah .McT'ie, a popular philanthropic worker in the city, nnd who has been a member of the Otago Hospital boat cl for severed years, was found not guilty” of attempting to dissuade the principal female witness in the ease against dames Reynolds Havin' and Elizabeth Simpson Giglis from giving certain evidence. borxn DEAD. AT'CKLAND, Aug. 8. Gladstone Greene, aged IP. employ" ! as milker at (liana, near Waiuku, war found dead, laee down, in a pool of four inches of water. Tie went lot cows about an hour before. It is snpp seel he fell info the water during a fit. in which In- wa- -educe!.

SHORT WEIGHT. ctmTSTcnnicfi. Aug. s. Charges were laid in the Magistrate’' Court to-day. under the new regulations framed to protect the publicagainst short-weight real. .1. .1. Pin'dic pleaded guilty to selling coal other than by weight. The inspector said that be did not ask for linos. The ease- had beer, brought under the regulations tor the first time in Christ church. The Magistrate said that it was not generally known that wood, coal and coke must he sold by weight and not by the sack. Defendant was ordered to pay easts. A. Harding pleaded not guilty to selling coal short of the quantity purported to ho sold, and to convoying coal on a vehicle with a weight stated less than the weight of the coal. Counsel for defendant said that the weight of sacks must be taken into account, and there was no evidence ns to how much was weighed. The coal was on the vehicle, but it was not in motion so it could not he said that the coal was being conveyed. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs.