DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

nv TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYIUOHT. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. WELLINGTON, Sept. TO. The Chief Justice had before him the question of a Magistrate’s jurisdiction to rr:!cr imprisonment for non-payment of debt, lie held the onus was on the? debtor to satisfy tlie Magistiate that lie had not sufficient money to pay, and in this t::;e it was clear the Magist.iaLe was not satisfied. It was therefore within his jin isdic iioii and he dismisxcd the application to prohibit the .Magistrate enforcing imprisonment.

A SAD 1-..VH, BLENHEIM. Sept. TO. Thomas Herd, aged (il. a widower, with eight children, disappeared yestcreVe. The police :!is .c;ve:ed lii.s body in a ) :;:d at Taylc r River, with big stones tied round the* neck. He had been suffering for years from an in -arable disease. YDI NC (: 11! I.’S END. DANNEVI UK E, Sep. TO. A young single woman named Jean Cull, a dentist’s assistant, was found dead thU morning in the work room Milder e-ire umstaiices indicating gas poisoning. W E 1.1. INC TON SUPREME COURT. WELL I Nt.’Tt IN, Hep. Til. At the Supreme Court to-day, Roland (ieorge Collins, for forging and uttering a cheque was sentenced to reformative detention for two and a half years. Robert Snowden Rush, a clerk in the Native Trust Ollice, for defalcations amounting to Lilli, received six months hard labour. The Chiet Justice saicl these eases had become frequent in the country. The Reach had decided years ago that probation could not lie given in case’s where del'll le-ntinos extended nver a considerable period.

SOLDIER SETTLERS APPROVED THAMES. Sept. Tt). Soldier settlers at Wnilnknriirn. oil llniirnki Plains, passed the billowing resolution—At a meeting lasi night ol soldier settlers on Block l\ . Pinko Survey District, they expressed their appreciation and sat islact ion at the generous manner in which they lead lie.m treated l.v the Revaluation Committee. ami feel coiitident they can in fill lire meet their obligations and make good. 11-lIOI'R Wr.KK. DUNEDIN. Sept. TO. Al llillsi.lc Railway warkshiq s. alter mi address by Alt t'li.h’ k. lormeidy of tlie- Arbitration Court, a lesnlcilioii was carried that in the best interests of railway workers, and also other worker-, the forty lour hour week should la: maintained. insurance .moneys. AUCKLAND. Sept. 2d. Hi-. Honour Mr Justice llerdmaic was asked, in the Supreme CouiT. tor an oilier in cniiiiei ti. .;i w ith ail ai ciileo 1 ami life insurance policy, taken mil by Neils Winter AlbeiTscii, a deceased liniikru pi, who died as the t" salt of injuries m l ived al a railway li'vc'l crossing. The London and -Lancashire I iisoraiir e Company was ready to pay CRT! due under the policy when the Court ordered to whom oayllit'iil slnmlil I-i * made. The question was whet her the money should lie paid to dccea-ed's wife and family, or to the creditors of the I ankropt’s estate. Counsel for the widow stated that the policy wa* taken by the cl :i' ; .':l to provide for bis clc pencil mis ill the i'c’ciil ot Tc. ilb.

Cnllliscl for tile (illi' ial Assignee said Hint Hie dc cased's I'mplovcr. \\””c|hnm. bad paid premiums cm the pelii v. which v.c lor 12 moiiihs only, and mil i.:i.ti" '.i'll in the siini" tray cc- a life P"l'. |I i . !|<'l■( I* II- a'l 111 j 1 I I'd 111 'I II V I

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SEN li.N't K KOI! Tllt’KT. Al t KLAND. Kept. At the Police ('.mi l . Joseph Bedford Roll -ri Kearney and Horace smith t, were charged with rubbing Samu. f (’liilur.l I’rie'e.h y ol 2f.s. and immediately before the robbery using violence to Priestley. They were alternately charged with having stolen Cl sterling from Priestley. Pi test lev is a masseur I'roiu whom Bedford re,aived treat nm,at. and introduced the ~ther defendants, it apparisitlv I emg ~,nei'd that il Priestley did not give I lien, minev. they take it from |,ii„ The ; barge was reduced to one ol , mnmun theft. Kearney was sentenced |,a, and H‘*‘li*urt! and Mnilli tl> six in.mills' each, to he followed by la.die month'.’ relo'inaltve treatment.