NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3033, 8 May 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

For taking bets at the Ellesmere Trotting Club’s non-totalisator meeting, two residents of Leeston, David Mclntyre and William Melville Beynon, were each fined £2O at Christchurch on Tuesday despite counsel’s plea that it was a picnic outing, and the men were just punting as a pastime.

George Silver was charged at tho Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday with assaulting two girls. He was canvassing for orders for fruit, and, finding two young girls alone in a house, invited himself in for a cup of tea and endeavoured to kiss the girls. When refused he did not persist, and left. The magistrate, Mr. Hewitt,, said that children left in charge of a home must be protected. He regarded the offence as not serious, and as a piece of foolishness. Silver was fined £5.

Mary Elizabeth Larsen (aged 47), wife of Ole Larsen, a farmer, of Norsewood, was knocked down on the main road there by a car driven by Wfilliam Henry Dalleson, of Napier, and subsequently died. The deceased, who was walking in the same direction as the car was travelling, apparently became confused on its approach. She crossed the road, hesitated, threw her hands up, and then apparently lost her head and recrossed the road, when the car struck her. The Coroner returned a verdict that her death was due to fracture of the skull through having been accidentally knocked down by a car, no blame being attachable to the driver.