DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

COWARDLY ASSAULT.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, October 17

Stanley lied vers Buller was charged at the Police Court with assaulting Maureen Joan Hall aged .6, so as to cause bodily harm. The police stated that the Hall’s lived at Maitland Street and last night Air Hall was working till 10 and Airs Hall went out to meet him, leaving the child in bed alone. Defendant was alleged to have entered the room and struck the child on the head with a bottle. It was not known whether, she would live or die. She was stall unconscious this morning. Buller was remanded in custody. A BUTTER THIEF. CHRISTCHURCH, October 17. Pleading guilty to twelve charges of theft of butter of a total value of £75, and one of the theft of £2O in money, Walter Scott Ettles .aged 26 years was remanded till-next Tuesday by Air Alosley S.AI. to-day. “He has Buckley’s chance of getting a job now in town” ’ declared the probation officer, when the question of restitution was being considered by the Count.

Tlie police said the accused committed the thefts white employed as a salesman by the Taitapu Dairy Company, He arranged the cases so that customers cc-uld not tell • they 1 were getting the full amounts, A CHURCH APPOINTMENT.! AUCKLAND, Oct. 17. Reverend Bro. Borgia, formerly a director of Sacred Heart CoUegej Auckland, has been appointed principal of the Maris-t Order in South Africa and leaves New Zealand next month. He takes up his new appointment in January. A CLERK ARRESTED. AUCKLAND, Oct. 17. Vincent Cranfield Butcher, -aged 28, said by the police to ibe a- clerk in the Magistrate’s .'Court fit Wellington, was arrested in a cabin aboard the steamer Ulimaroa- just before it was sailing this morning. The arrest was made on a warrant alleging Butcher on October 15tli, stole £ll3 lfis the property of the Government. On his appearance in Court to-mor-row he will be remanded to Wellington. -.

BEQUESTS UNDER WILL

INVERCARGILL, Oct. 15

AVilliam Young, of Yenlaw, a retired shepherd, who died recently, left legacies totalling over £5500 to public and philanthropic institutions, including £SOO each to the British and Foreign Bible Society, St. John’s Girls’ School and the, Salvation Army. The residue of the estate,- after private bequests, goes to the Southland Prisoners’ and Patients’ Aid -Society, the Sixpenny Clothing Club, the Victoria Home and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals. It is estimated that each will receive £I.OOO. All the legacies are free of duty. NEGLIGENT DRIVING. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 17. For driving a motor car negligently. Reverend Thomas Fee, of Opawa, was fined £2 and costs by Magistrate Alosley Witnesses said -the car knocked a woman down by coming suddenly out of a garage in Gloucester Street. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 17. It is understood both Air G. D. Greenwood and his son were in the house when the fire started, and had a narrow escape.