COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1925, Page 3

COURT NEWS.

i(Y TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. DUNEDIN, August 21. Charges of sIV grog selling and keeping liquor exposed lor sale against John Stiven and Charles Calhigher, proprietor- ol billiard saloons in Bal•lutha, were prclcrrcil in the Magistrate's Court at Balclutha to-day, be fore Air 11. .1. Dixon S.M. Alter lengthy evidence, in which Stiven told a story entirely dill'erciit from that of a •unstable, who said I’e bought whi>ky Tom him, the .Magistrate entered a •onviction against Stiven. lining him £35 and costs on one charge and orlering costs on the id her. Cnllngher admitted buying liquor rum I>u lioi lin firms, hut said that lie used it to shout his friends. There was in evidence to show lie actually sold liquor, and on this charge he was lined £2ll and costs. II A WEB A, A ugiisi 20. The serious nature of the olfence if sunulving liquor to natives tor con sumption off licensed premises was ciniliasiseil at the Magistrate’s Court hy Mr Barton S.M.. when he imposed heavy fines on men accused ot that iffence. He added that in tho next similar cases in tins district lie would impose the maximum penalty. Joseph Dombroski and Koaki Wallace were charged with the above-men-tioned offence. (Jordon ('hisnall was •barged with aiding and abetting DmnTroski. Tiie police stated that W al'aec arranged with Chisnall to supply beer, which was ordered hy the latter, hut lie found no container available in vhieh to take the liquor away. Later Dombroski called with a cream can and took away the liquor, five gallons. In a native’s residence, where eight Maoris vere waiting for it. Dombroski was inot! £2l), and Wallace and Chisnall £ls each. A BIGAMIST. NELSON. Aug. 21. Charles Finchiim, alias John \\ ilson. pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. Accused married in England in 1887. and later was employed as steward on a tniat trailing to New Zealand. Eventually he took up a position as cook at Tabaka, and went again through the form of marriage in 1914. Accused was committed to Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. FRAUDULENT C'OAI. DEAL. HAMILTON, Aug. 21. At the Police Court William Sydney Ferguson, fruit hawker, of Auckland, was committed tor trial on a charge if obtaining three trucks ot coal by false pretences. Evidence was adduced that accused represented himself as an agent for an Auckland merchant. .Hid entered into an agreement with a coal owner at Kitnihin for the supply of 100 tons per week, obtaining delivery of three trucks, which he sold m truck lots, and for two of which he received payment. A demand for payment b.v the coni owner made upon the accused’s alleged principal had been returned through the Dead Letter Office.