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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 45, 21 January 1902, Page 5

A case was heard at the sitting of the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court, yesterday in which a lad, fourteen years of age, was charged with the theft of cigars and cigarettes, of the value of four shillings, from a store at Ngatimoti Con Christmas Day. The charge was laid under section 256 of the Criminal Code Act, there being no other law to deal with the case. The evidence of three boys was given, to the effect that they had received articles, alleged to be stolen by the accused. Constable Kemp, who was desj>atched from Nelson to prosecute eni juiries gave evidence to the effect that the lad had confessed t > abstracting the articles. In reply *t > an enquiry from the Magistrate tbe accused said he did not wish to offer any evidence, a..id entered a plea of guilty. He will !>,; brought up for: sentence at the next .•-■ttings of the Supreme Court, Nelson, bail having been, allowed. Sergeant Mackay conducted the cas± on behalf of the police. It is a great pity such l»etty cases could not be dealt with .•summarily; in this instance the value of g >ods taken was ridiculously small. That, however, is no excuse for the c mduct of accused.

As showing the type of men given t- mimissions in, the Wellington section of the Contingent, two cases are quoted by the Wellington correspondent of ihe Chtistchurch Truth —one a youth 17 years of age, getting 15s a weak as junior cleric, appointed lieutenant; another of a man who was Clerk of the C mt t on the West Coast, and who had ne/ifdonea day's drill nor wis pvysicvlly qualified, ®also being appointed Vieutenant. • Both (says the correspondent) are purely' politicil appointments.

A remarkable divorce case is attracting great interest in Chicago. The plaintiff, Mrs Josephine Ovmsbv, i barges her husband "with drunkenlass, cruelty, and ''desertion. During t 1 e seven years of. their married life M s Oim>by has been the anther of one set of triplets, two pair.> of twins, three single children, and one of quadruplets. These last are now living the others being dead. When the quadruplets were born ,£2OO was raised by public subscription and presented t> the happy mother, who is how earnin"' £SO a week by exhibiting herself a id her offspring at a dime museum.

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