DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

ay XEtUOKAPH—PKESa ASSN , COPyniGHT. YOUNG CfliL'.S LAPS!-:. WELLINGTON, -May 0. “ 1 liese limits had been going on for sollli time. iniL like Ceaser's wile the defendant was above .suspii.-ii.in,” •aid Chiel'-Detivtive Kemp at the .M agist i a te's Court, yesterday when a young girl, whose name was ordered to he siipjiressed by the magistrate, Mr C. It. Orr-Walker. S.M., pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of C'G Is lid. the property of the Wellington Building and Cunstnirtiuii Company. The chief-detective said that the delend.int was employed as a tvpisto by the above firm, and was commissioned at different periods to pay out small amounts. Some of these she had appropriated. "The most wicked part about the offences was the persistent brazen effrontery of the defendant, who said that she had paid the moneys into those firms. This hud pul others under suspicion. She also i oinrnil ted thefts from the cages while the lady aceoniifanCs bank was Dimed, and the accountant, who was in none too good circumstances, had to make, up the deficits out of her own pocket. The defendant mines from a rather respeetable family, and there is nothing previously against ln-i*. ”1 hope Ibis will be a lesson to you. g lady.” said the magistrate when lie eunvieted and ordered her to come up (or sentcnee when called up-

TIIF.FT OK IHCYCI-K. WELLINGTON. May I). A youth whose name was suppressed, was sentenced to two years' probation liy Mr C. ID Orr-Walker, S.M. at the .Maoist rale's Court for theft of a bicycle, valued at £7 10s, the property’ ol the New Zealand (inventURMtI . The licensed took Die eyele. 101 l standing in Die post office xaid by ■' messenger, but this attempt to disguise it by means of a coat of enamel was frii-t raD-d by the eagle eye of the iues.seoyer. Lasil Henry Fleming. alias Anderson. who was charged with breaking and enterinu: at l.yall llav. and with theft, of a. ladies’ wristlet, watch, valued at £’2 and £1 7s (id. in cash, was remanded lor a week. A11,,.rt Windsor was remanded for a week on a charge ol breaking and entering at Day's Day. DCNKDIN. May 12. A bov aped six years lias been admitted 'to the hospital, being a positive ease of infantile paralysis.

CHILD KIM.I'.I). 1 fASTI.VCS. May D2. A little pirl. Joyce Sorenson, two and a half years old, daupliter of dens Sorenson, sheep farmer. Manpatalii, was killed this morning while swingon pate. The strainer holding the was rot fen at the bottom, and the extra weight caused it to fall on the child. She was picked up dead about n n min utes a I terwards. YOUTH'S THKI 'f. GISBORNE. May DM At the Magistrate's Court to-day, a fifteen-year-old youth appeared before the Juvenile Court charged with tho theft of £l)3 from a dwelling house, lie was sentenced i" three veins tet.,lHi ll IX-.- In\ oretirgdl Itorstal Institute. PER IfY TICKET FRAUDS. WELLINGTON. May Id. M Shore's trial, the jury returned ; ,t. 7.1 d p.lil. after an absence ot an hour and twenty minutes, and brought in ~ verdict of guilty "it Die conn! ol stealing but the jury was unable to r ,.,.;f v ;l finite amount. On (lie second count of mlis-pirney lo defraud Dio Fa - bourne Cuiiiieil. llie inr.v found the prisoner guilty, but added that there was "i-eat laxity in Mu' methods of supervising the check tickets during the lime of the frauds, Sentence was d.-i-'i red till to-morrow. \ SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN. May DL

this itlVrn'f'ii. George MeMulhin, aged 70. Ml dead in tlm street ~1 Moniint'lou. bill as a medical eera- to Una run f death >* :iv;ii 1;vl>Io. ail in-iue-st is liliiu.'t'ossai> .

SlldUTAUi'. UK I'I'NUS. WI'.I.I.INOTON. M»y r *- .•!l is common knowledge that there hitvi' l«ft'ii shortages ; there has been laxity iiml. in >-.1. <hsl.ni.fst y. m Uu S'iistbourne ISot-oiiixli < "nin th S ' UI ill Ui>‘ Sniirv-im* l Vfslnr,|V "I am lint making n !t''"era f .j .am-: I In- H'irnugh Council ,„U Tl is a fur. i hat thr No, I ages wore l hrl'f. . | | •■\\V lmvf mi fv"lfniv "" Ui. ■ niiiiit " intf iTiif'iril M i •) ustii f <ls 1,.,. I I I'lilf thm y,n! cannot go inl'n it. There is vviih'ii.f L.,1. I,ut In* vi uu I tlliil ynn dtilitnl tl". \ V , ~, 1 -.. .l,is caso <■ 11 1 iif ly mi thr must tut"' mis i.i.. p,.j, hfl'lTf til" COlll't. ' ' ('outi-el : Wf haVf aLo k'2 IN i>d,

Hi- 11■ inoilr: All right : you w" ~v.nii- C2 IN I hi. 11 »a lighter). iwocknt oit gui.ty:WK.LLIXtiTON. -'lny °- --Tl.o police nsh yni O’ -„,us Imm ill" In''l that thf accused turned I'ttlf ivlit'll hr ivas ai.pioaflK'il, saiil ro.il.sfl in the Supreme Court vf-trnlay. 'lllll fuuld mi man tuin lii'lf:" Mould " liana'll of thf jui'y. I’h" l ” hi'Vf a policeman approach you ovf.i «•« sontfLfiinm harmless 'i It. give.- "l'f n I know it riavo ill.- oi'f thf other aav. when a policeman walked into my ai1',,.,., even though II '''ns ""'.v having a tail-light on »'. v ' 'VI r.) listin' listin': INI >'"» “ivn !> ' Counsel: Km not >uiv that I .!i<!n'i. Laughter). <|OCKT(>\' COAL I lU'l I’l-h-WKSTPOKT. -May hh I'lif Stockton foal mill" dispute IIVC| . The minimum naff maUn' ! a- been sfttlfil. ami work will he resumed on ]• rida.' •