DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

By Telegraph—Per Press Association,

INDECENT DOCC.RENTS. AUCKLAND, April 20. • Frank .Joseph Brand, appeared t'answer three charges ol puxling an indecent document to young Indies The Chief Dclcelive said tin- letter-, were the most disgusting eonglom -iation of liltli lie had ever -eeii. ■'ach letter commenced with 'hrealening tingirl. Council for accused said he v,-.s

a widower, a recent arrival from I'.ikjland. to August last he 101 l lri-m a Irani and sustained a ia- l lire i! Om liase of the skull. Mr McKean. S.M.. lined acvii-ed ' 0 on one charge and ordered him to - oliie uti for sentence if called on on He others. Mr McKean -aid perhaps ; good Hogging would have keen tic last punishment, bur mil'orrmiaielv lie could not order one. TO BE WOUND UP. CHIHKTt lICRt 11. April 20. Applieatmii lor ait order that Imperial Tim hers Ltd. should he wound up was consented to in the Supreme Court to-day. The application was made on heliall ot certain shareimlders and creditors. SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. CHRISTCHURCH. April 20. At the Suoreme Court prisoners were sentenced l).v Judge Adams:— Cecil William I lec tor Isaacs, iiuleeeul. assualt. to reformative detention for «»ih* yi'.ir. Kenneth Gar. 22. on tln-fi to nine months gaol. Arthur iSehenkel, IP theft, probation for two years. Alfred Charles Welnian, lmnse breaking and theft, nine months gaol. Ira Francis Bishell, forged receipt, two years probation. Leonard Charles Haskell housebreaking. six months gaol, to he Billowed by two years reformative. At the Supreme Court, George Tretheway and .John Brisbane on a

series of burglary and tlielt charges were sentenced to three years and eighteen months gaol respectiv el\ . Judge Adams said such crimes were becoming too common. Trethewav had a had record and the offences were o! a serious nature. A RULE EXHORT. GISBORNE, April 20. The apple export this season Imm Gisborne will reach over 21.0(10 eases, treble the highest quantity previously shipped. The .Maimon in May takes 1 1.000 eases.