DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) THEFT CHARGE. AUCKLAND, Oct. 3. John George Dunnett, aged twentyeight, who had pleaded guilty to the thefts of ladies’ wearing apparel valued at £43 from a warehouse where he had been employed, came up for sentence. He explained that he met a young woman on the voyage from England a year ago, and became infatuated with her. He stole so that she might he well dressed. The Afagistrate (AD Hunt) said that accused had previously borne a good cnalrnpter. Under the circumstances he would he placed on probation for two years. SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN, Oct. 5. A\ bile preparing to leave home for a picture theatre Alary AfcLauehlan, single, aged 26, suddenly collapsed and died. She suffered a few years ago from rheumatic fever and at the inquest a verdict was returned of heart failure following on an old rheumatic infection of the heart muscles.

APPEAL COURT. I WELLINGTON, Oct. 5. Before the Appeal Court this morning, Air Fair K.O. announced lie had considered the Auckland case of Parker and Wood against John Ormiston | Ward on the first count, should l>e J quashed. Parker and Wood were i charged with conspiring to defraud, I the former being acquitted and the j latter convicted. Air Fair said it was i a principle of law that, however clear 1 a case might he against one conspirator, both must he acquitted if one was. The Court agreed and quashed Wood’s conviction on the first count.

The Court then heard an application of Walter Yelds, of Invercargill, a sawmill worker for leave to appeal against conviction for attempting unlawfully to carnally know two little girls of 13 and 8 years. Tho case was heard before Justice Sim. At the conclusion counsel for accused admitted that Yeld’s act was insufficient to bring him within section 93 of the Act, 1908, and were if anything only a preparation for an attempt. The Judge refused to reserve the questiou of law for the Court of Appeal. Air Fair, K.C. for the Crown and Air G. Reed for Yelds,

LATER. The Court of Appeal dismissed the application without calling on Mr Fair. The Court were unanimously of tho opinion that the present case was indistinguishable from Rex v. Barker, by which tho Court was hound. There was sufficient evidence of intention to commit the major crime, and accused was rightfully convicted of the attempt.

ARBITRATION COURT FINE., AUCKLAND, Oct. 5. Charles Henry Winship, an upholsterer, was fined £5 by the Arbitration Court for a breach of the award, Justice Frazer holding that a partnership agreement between defendant and a boy, who was not registered ns an apprentice, was not worth the paper it was written on. The term of agreement was five years which was the same period as apprenticeship. Certainly there was a distribution 'of profit in the agreement but tho man was to get four-fifths and the boy one-fifth. The Court was satisfied the whole (thing was an evasion of the Apprentice Act.

NOTED MAORI AVOAIAN’S DEATH ROTORUA, Oct. 5.

Obituary—Wikitoria Kalmao Dansoy, wife of the ex-postmaster at Rotorua. She was the daughter of Thnkara Kahuao, Chief of Ngati Tuwhauto (Taupo) who fought for the Crown in the Alaori Wars. She is the mother of Captain 11. 0. Dansey, AI.C.C., Mjajor R. J. Dansey, and Captain G. R. Dansey, of the postal service, and E. P. Dansey, of Taupo. SHUNTER DIES. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 5. L. J. Hay man, aged 28, who was injured in the railway shunting accident yesterday, died at the hospital this morning. He was a married mail.