DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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TWO YEARS’ PROBATION. PALMERSTON NORTH. Dec. 17. Charles Henry Larsen, who pleaded guilty to a charge of forging a Post Office Savings Bank receipt at Marton and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, was admitted to probation for two years. WELLINGTON'S ’XMAS TRADE. WELLINGTON. December 17. Notwithstanding the late interruption of trade, following on the shipping trouble and the lull in the prices of wool, etc., on the Home markets, and the fact that many people are saving up for a visit to the Dunedin .Exhibition the prospeets for the ’Ninas trade in Wellington are said to have never been brighter. Never since the war lias so great a variety of seasonable goods been displayed for public selection and business people anticipate all previous records for ’Ninas shopping to be eclipsed.

SALVATION ARMY OFFICER RETIRES. WELLINGTON. December 17. Lieut.-Col. James Bray. Social Secretary lor the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and well-known and highly esteemed throughout the Dominion, relire- from active service and goes to Melbourne to reside. He will he officially larewelled by the Army next Sunday at Wellington. Colonel Bray has the distinction of being the oldest active male officer in I lie Southern Hemisphere. The Colonel has been responsible for many reforms ill the pusl forty year?. For fifteen years lie has been official visitor to

prisons in New Zealand, a privilege accorded by the Government in recognition of the assistance he rendered Sir • Willii Findlay in framing the Reformative I list it lit ions Ai t whereby improved prison methods were made possible. PUBLICATION FORBIDDEN.

CHRISTCHURCH. Dee. 17. An order against the publication of evidence was made in the Supreme Court this morning when Eva Holton, single, claimed from William Milliter, a contractor, of Sock burn, £3OO sterling for an alleged indecent assault and £IOOO sterling i n a second charge of aggravated n'-aulf. Proceeding. GOV lit{X< >H-G KXKI! AI, AT

R LF.FTOX. RKEETON. Dec. 17. The (Jiivei nnr-General arrived at Reel tun at 111. 10 a.m.. received all addles- and replied, lie then proceeded to the hospital where the patients ware visited. The Gcivarner-General was entertained at luncheon by the citizens this afternoon and attended tile school prize giving. lie leave- by train lor Greymolltli. BODY IDENTIFIED. AUCKLAND, December 17. The body found in the harbour early in November and previously identified as that, of John Gallagher, who proved in tie alive, has now been ascertained to be that of Janies Hugh Murray, aged 30, single, a returned soldier, win had worked at Wlningarei and on scows in jiorl. MOTORIST FINED £lO. MASTERTON. Me". 17. Arthur Lester Morgan was charged at the .Magistrate’s Court with being in a slate of intoxii at ion while in 1 1 uirgo of a motor ear. and with driving a ear recklessly. The information regarding drunkenness was dismissed. but a tine of t.'|(l was imposed for reckless dialing, hi? driving license endorsed, and Morgan prohibited from driving for three months.