DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

SOLICITOR SUSPENDED. { By Telegraph—ter tress Association) WELLINGTON, July 5. The Court of Appeal to-day delivered its reserved judgment in tile case of the New Zealand Law Society v. John Merven Hobin. solicitor, of Whakatahane, heard on the 6th inst., the order of the Court being that the praettiioner be suspended from'' practice for a period of three years. Costs of fifteen guineas together with auditor’s tee, were allowed to the Law Society.

AN UNUSUAL SUIT

AUCKLAND, July 7

Judgment for plaintiff was given in the case in which Benjamin Herzog, of Ponsonby, salesman, administrator in the estate of his wife, the late Emily Herzog, asked for possession of a: box in which Mrs Herzog had kept her private papers, a savings bank book, and a quantity of cash and receipts. Alternatively, lie sought judgment for £215. Defendant was Mrs Sarah Billings, of Ponsonby, mother of deceased. The bride was married while sitting up in bed during an illness which proved fatal, six days after the marriage. The defence stated that the box and its contents were given to defendant by Mrs Herzog the day before her marriage in terms of a gift in contemplation of death, and that they were now the property of defendant.

MOTORISTS CONVICTED

HAMILTON. July 7

Two men were charged before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court with offences arising out of the same set of eurcumstances. Cornelius M’Devdtt, aged 43, pleaded guilty to a, charge of obstructing the police. Archibald Hillary Quinn, aged 27, denied a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a. motor car. M’Devitt was fined 5s for drunkenness and £5 for obstructing the police, in default one month’s imprisonment. Quinn was fined £lO, and bis driver’s license was suspended for six months.

THEFT FROM CATHEDRAL. DUNEDIN, July 6. Petty thefts from the Roman Oath- ' otic Cathedral have been taking place for some time, To-day Joseph George Dearsley pleaded guilty to stealing j three tables and two chairs, valued at I £4. 2s 6d, the property of the Roman I Catholic Bishop of Dunedin. Chiefj Detective Quartermain said accused admitted stealing the tables and chairs, which he sold to second-hand dealers, but he denied stealing a small box containing about 10s in pennies. He was a man of some, culture, and a. teacher of pianoforte and fine violin, but bad five previous convictions for theft. ‘fThe curious part of it,” added the Chief-Detective, “is that he says he went into the church to pray.” Accused was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on the first charge, and ordered to come up for sentence within six months on the other two charges.