DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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THEFT. GISBORNE. May 31. Charged with theft of articles valued at L'.i from a. roadman’s hut at Wanganui in October, and obtaining 810 at Wairoa by false pretenses, Alfred Leon Lowther, alias Viscount Lowther, and Adrian R«dney, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

SUPREME COURT. PALMERSTON X.. -May 31. At the Supreme Court. William Veen, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court to breaking, entering and theft from a grocer’s shop at Palmerston North,'was admitted to probation for 2 years, conditional on taking out a prohibition order, and abstaining from intoxicating liquor. John Graham Oxley, for breaking and entering llangitekei Club at lending, with a lengthy list of prevoius convictions, was sentenced to reformative detention for seven years.

FORGED CHEQUES. CHRISTCHURCH, May 31. “ This man is mentally deficient. He lias recently married and the wherewithal for the honeymoon came from the forging of these eleven cheques, representing £146,” said Mr Upham in the Magistrate’s Court today, when a fairly young man whose name was suppressed in the meantime was charged on eleven counts with having f&rged cheques, Accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Bail was allowed.

A ROBBERY. INVERCARGILL, May 31. On Saturday night burglars broke into Irvine and Co’s premises in Wood Street and removed £l5O worth of rabbitskins. Indications show a motor was used to carry away the goods. MAORI’S DEATH. TIMARU, -May 31. Te Were Whaitari, a Maori, aged forty-one, who sustained serious injuries in Temuka on Thursday by being thrown from a trap owing to a horse bolting, died last night. He leaves a widow and seven children.

SHIPPING SERVICE. GISBORNE, May 31. The Union Coy announce the withdrawal of the Wainui from the East Coast service, owing to lack of passenger traffic, which, since the completion of roads and the opening of motor services, lias gone overland.

OILFIELDS REPORT. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 31. Taranaki oilfields report that the Waiapu No. 2 well drilled to 1430 feet in grey shale, with a ten-inch casing to 1413 feet; Taranaki No. 3 well 90 feot. A stove-pipe casing was run in a hole clear to 100 feet. The Gisborne No. 1 erection work is well advanced. Casing and coal at Port are awaiting favourable weather tor transport.

MAORI FOUND DEAD. HAW ERA, May 31. A Maori, locally known as Davy Real, and whose name is unknown, missed the .track down the Opukanc cliffs to his whnre in the storm last night. He fell forty feot to the beach. He was found dead this morning with injuries to his head.

RAILWAY ABANDONED. GISBORNE. May 31. Holding that the inland route would he too costly in the first place and that the cost of maintenance would be increased out of proportion to the additional revenue, which might he expected, the Minister of Railways has definitely decided to abandon any intention. which formerly existed, of carrying the railway from Wairoa to Gisborno via Hnngaroa. His advice to this effect has been received by the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce.