CHEQUES ASTRAY

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1926, Page 4

CHEQUES ASTRAY

ACC iJMEO’S UK USUAL DEFENCE. PALMED SION N., May 20. How two cheques tame into file possession of a young man who bore the slime name as the intended recipient and who endorsed and cashed them ill the belief that they were intended for him, was related in the .Magistrate’s Court to-dav, when lie pleaded not guilty to two charges of forgery.

In the course of the evidence it was adduced that the accused was engaged to a young woman who had been in ioeeipt of a regular monetary allowance from a Marten resident. That man had provided her with a cheque hook, and when she, wanted money slie filled in the amount and sent a cliecjue to him for signature. When she wrote to her protector asking for money, the code word was “parcel.” The accused was fully aware of this arrangement, and a letter produced by counsel showed that the accused and the woman (the latter is at present in a private hospital) were expecting the arrival of another “parcel.” . The accused, in evidence, said that he showed the cheques to his fiancee. He had no doubt that they were intended for her as they were addressed as usual to witness, and lie had written to another man thanking him for Ho “parcels.” The latter regarded it as a joke and did not trouble to reply that no “parcels” had been sent. The accused was committed for trial, hail being granted in the sum of self £SO and one other surety of £SO.

Under Friday’s sunshine a splendid perspective of 14,000 early tulips bad bloomed in a perfectly straightcarpet from the South to the Main Gates. This quarter of a mile of blossom is finer than anything at Kew, and excited sighs of sheer admtiation frinn the vistors. Yet not a single flower was plucked. Another 23.000 tulips of later-bloom-ing varieties will seek their place in the sun a little later on. The present tulip pageant, however, is good for another ten days or so, and dims the lure of the Zoo animals themselves into a mere side-show.”