DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

A REMITTANCE MAN. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, July 12. Once a high officer in the Imperial Army and described by his counsel as an English gentleman when sober and an English pest when drunk, Edmund Harry Robert Lister appeared at the Police Court to-day on a charge of stealing jan overcoat valued at £5 which he. borrowed ancL pawned. Mr ,White, for the accused, stated lie was a remittance man of gentle birth foi whom counsel, had acted under power of attorney. During last week Lister broke out on a drinking bout. On previous occasions when drinking (at whioli time counsel refused him money) he had pawned goods, well knowing that his solicitor would redeem them. Had counsel known that this coat had been pawned, he would have redeemed'it. Describing the offence as an act ol drunken folly the Magistrate adjourned the charge for twelve months, to be called on if his conduct was unsatisfactory.

SHEEP KILLED. l July 12. .... A railway 1 -bits driven toy a man named- P.aptingtpii. ran into a mob of valuable 'South cl owns on the pipe bridge over the Hutt River and killed eight. The * ust purcluis’eci 'Hfe' sheep ; fhdhf' the breeder, Leigh top,, is .stated to .be .severe, the ; valu§ : Yun’fihfg into'some hundreds. ' " A DEPUTATION. WELLINGTON, July 12. A deputation waited on the Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) to-da.c with a view to the inclusion of Esperanto as a subject of study in primalI}. 1 }. secondary, and technical schools and in the university. . Mr' Atmore promised an answer within the next fortnight.

BURGLARS FEAST. o- a - if MASTERTON, July 8. From the,, appearance of the Masterton' Tea ( Kiosk this morning it would appear that, some,, persons must have indulged 'iff a banquet during the week-' end, for when an. inspection of the premises was made, following the discovery that illegal entrance had heeii obtained, ; efnptyr ginger beer bottles and 'pineapple a tins, together with an ilssortin'eni!'of empty choclate box'es and'' wrappings were strewn in disorder over the floor. Over a dozen boxes of chocolates aie missing, and it seems that the intruders ' hifiil a fine taste this mattei. for lines ;yei>e ignored; and only expensive brands appropriated. Entrance to the premises was evidently a-casement windowwith an empty beer bottle that was fioiiii«|;|close[ fe'Vter which it was a .simi^l : matter "to unfasten the catch No cash was left in the building over the, week-end. The police ■ have tin matter, in hand. - THEFT'OF TEACHER’S SALARY.

AtARTON, July 9. •' '■ In Martoii ’’’ recently a local school- : teacher’ missetl : lier.‘mdiith’s'salary, amounting to £lB. By clever work, the police made an arrest in Wellington and Phillip A. Kesler, alias Geisler alias Hasler, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. He was charged also with obtaining credit by fraud at a local hotel. On the first charge he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and on the second ’to one month. Kesler is awaiting sentence for stealing a gold watch and chain at AVanganui.

PRISON ESCAPEE t COMAUTTED FOR SENTENCE. DUNEDIN, July 12. For the first time since his recapture at Brunnerton the story of AVilliarn Rainsdoh Avery, an escapee from the Dunedin- gaol on June 6 was told to-day in the Police Court. He walked out of the prison gate early in the morning when it was open for tradesmen. He crossed the railway line +' where the steamer Ivaritu was lying and according to his tale was receive- 1 on board By some of the crew. He left the vessel at Lyttelton stole a bicycle and rode to Greymouth going thence to Brunnerton where he obtained work in the mines. He was this morning charged with stealing a motor-car at Cave on. A Lay 21; lnirglarlv and theft from a safe at Dunedin and escaping from prison. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on all charges..