DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association OAMARU GARDENS. £3OOO RAISED IN FOUR WEEKS. OA.MARU. March G. Tlie culminating event in a hig effort to raise funds for the improvement of the Oamnru Gardens was a fete on Saturday. The objective was £3OOO. This has been raised in under four weeks, including £1214 on'Saturday—a remarkable result for a town the size of Oamnru.. There is still more money to come in. ! JEWELS PLANTED BY THIEF. AUCKLAND, March 8. Alleged by the police to be responsible for numerous thefts from city dwellings, Wallace Athol Warrington Gay Smith, aged 27, appeared in the Police Court on a charge of breaking; and entering, and stealing jewellery and moiiey valued at £lO, from a house in Pukanui .Street, Epsom. Chief Detective Hammond said that over twenty charges of burglary were ponding. A. remand for al week was granted, bail being refused. Detectives have recently been searching for jewellery, alleged to have I>ocn “planted” by accused at various points in the city. One of the charges pending concerns the theft of jewellery valued at over £10'), from Mrs AL Sturt’s residence in I’anfurly Rond, Epsom. This burglary was committed over four mouths ago, and according to information given by accused, the proceeds were concealed in a spouting near the Auckland Railway Station. Detectives searched the locality indicated without result. EXTENSIVE FRAUDS. AUCKLAND, -March 8. Extensive frauds with valueless cheques were cleared up in the Police Court, when William Scholes, aged 37, and Edwin Andrew Simpson, aged 29, pleaded guilty to 17 charges of obtaining by false pretences, goods and money- to a tolal value of about £l£o. They were also charged jointly with attempting to obtain £7 with a valueless cheque. Scholes was alone charged with escaping from custody on July 27. 1927, and with obtaining £319 Ids villi there valueless cheques, and with the tiledt ol a cheque book. It wa s stated that Scholes was convicted on nine charges of false pretences in Christchurch last July, and was sent north under escort to serve two years’ imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol. He escaped from the train, during a stoppage after passing Mercer on July 27. 11 is recapture was effected on February 24 at a house in Taylor Street, Morning-side. Simpson had been apprehended on the same day. while attempting to pass a. valueless cheque. Detective Knight said that Ihe accused had given every assistance in connection with their numerous offences. i Both men were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. - INJURIES PROVE FATAL. CHRISTCHURCH, March 8. Richard Joughlin, married, died In the hospital to-day as a result of head injuries received by a tall trout a cycle. Joughlin was a sign writer. LATER. Richard E. doughin died in Christchurch this morning under an anaesthetic. Me was admitted to the hospital shortly before midnight, having suffered injuries to the head and lace by' a fall when the forks of his bicycle broke. Me walked home'a distance of about a-quartcr of a mile, but his nose bled very copiously, and his wife induced him to go to the hospital, where an operation was 'performed in the early morning. An inquest was opened this afternoon. The Coroner ordered a post mortem examination and adjourned the inquest. ROY INJURED BY CAR. GISBORNE. -March 8. Early this evening, a hoy named William Dally, aged eight years, was knoeed down by a motor car while < rossing the street, and removed to the hospital, suffering from head and internal injuries. His condition is said to lie not serious. THE AVRECKED WHALER. SUCCESSFULLY REFLOATED. INVERCARGILL. March 8. The C. A. Larsen was successfully floated to-day, and moored in a perfectly safe position in South West Ray. DUNEDIN, March 8. Arrangements have been completed between the Otago Harbour Hoard and representatives of the O. A. Larsen lor docking the vessel at Port Chalmers, and it is hoped that this will take place inside the next three weeks. The dock will lie lengthened by about 30 feet and the work will lie pushed ahead with all possible speed. CHARGE OF PERJURY. AUCKLAND, March 8. The charge of perjury against Ernest Gilbert, blacksmith, collapsed in the Police Court when it announced that a witness, whose absence resulted in an adjournment at the previous hearing on February 23. had died in hospital last .Monday. The case arose out ol the acquittal of Gilbert in February. 1920, on a charge of negligently driving a motoi car at Onehunga. when a collision occurred with a cyclist. AYlien piosccuted. Gilbert declared that lie and another man were the only occupants of the ear. The police had since alleged that there were two women, and at the opening of the ease a fortnight ago. a woman staed that she was a passengei. The case was adjourned, when it was said that the other woman concerned was in the hospital. At the resumption to-day. the police intimated that the witness had died on Monday. Air Goldstein, counsel for accused, asked for a dismissal, on the ground that a prinia facie case had not been made out. The Magistrate concurred.