DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

FORTUNE TELLING. (By Telegraph— Press Association). PALMERSTON N., August 2. When two charges were preferred against Mrs Ivy 'Bayliss in the Magistrate’s Court of fortune telling, her counsel stated defendant all her life had. told, fortunes .simply .as a joke'. Her friends asked her to do so and knowing her straitened circumstances left some gratuity payment- which she had never, requested. The police stated the defendant was. a reputed fortune teller and had been forecast;ing the future, telling a lot of rubbish. ' She was' fined one pound on each charge. '.; .. . V. i 1 DAMAGES AWARDED. PALMERSTON N., August 2. ;> At the,- Supreme Court the jury awarded Audrey Brook Taylor £330 damages for injuries sustained in a collision between a motor lorry owned by the 'Wellington .Express Coy., and a car, in which plaintiff was a passenger. It was alleged the accident was due to, negligence, by the lorry driver. Plaintiff claimed £1039. ; CAR THIEVES. . ‘ GISBORNE, August 2. A fortnight ago a car belonging to Frank Hildreth, of Mangawa, Hawkes Bay, was stolen from the homestead. Two days later it was found capsized on an abandoned Coast' road north of Gisborne. A search has been made by the police for two native youths, who with a Maori girl have been 'absent from the locality and after a strenuous chase over rough country this morning were captured, the girl with a sprained ankle, having to be carried about a mile. Tlie youths, Jimmy Lawson and Edward Tamai, were charged with stealing the car and came before the court and were remanded. The girl was charged with absconding from licensed service and also was remanded. . , , A CASE SETTLED. WELLINGTON, August 2. When the Supreme Court sat this morning for the conclusion of a case in which a motor-cvclist, Desire Stephaan, sought £949 damages from > James Frederick Lillev, with whose car he he had a collision in Ivniwarra Gorge, counsel for plaintiff announced a settlement had been arrived at and asked for judgment by consent for £829,- inclusive of costs.The Chief Justice ordered judgment to be entered accordingly, remarking that he was satisfied the settlement was fair and reasonable to both parties. ’ THEFT CHARGE. STRATFORD, Aug. 2. Everard Vauncey Hughes, until recently teller-at Stratford branch,of the Bank of New South Wales pleaded guilty in the Magistrates Court, this morning toifour charges of theft from the Bank totalling £240 3s od. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.