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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9339, 7 January 1909, Page 8

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Per Press Association. Wellington, January 6. Extradition was granted this morning in the case of Herbert Thomas duff and Harry Riemenechceider, charged with wife desertion in New South Wales. Milford Burgess, alias John Williams, arrested in Sydney on a charge of breaking and entering at Lower Hntt, and who broke ont of gaol some days ago, pleaded guilty this morning, and was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence. For breaking out ot gaol he got three months. Dunedin, January 6. Thomas McKenzie was charged at the Police Court this morning with carrying on the business of a secondhand dealer without a licensee. It was a test case. It appeared defendant had a license signed by the Corporation, but the point for the prosecution was that defendant had two places of business , whereas the whole wording of the Second-hand Dealers’ Act showed that each license should only apply to one place of business. The Magistrate considered a nominal penalty would meet the case and fined defendant five shillings without costs. Napier,, January 6. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Wm. Robinson was charged with having on November 13th, a* Runanga, on the Napier-Tanpo Road, received from Samuel Beswick, ten head of cattle valned at £45, the property of Richard Keene and Jas. Reid, knowing the same to have been stolen. Accused, who reserved his defence, was committed on bail to the Supreme Court for trial. _ „ ‘Dunedin, January 6. At the Police Court to-day John Stephen Toomey, aged 19, was charged with having, on December 14th, discharged a loaded rifle at Daniel McCurdy, his stepfather, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. After evidence for the prosecution.bad been given the accused, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial. The police opposed an appliojtion for bail on the ground that,/ accused had since threatened to do McCurdy further injury. Accused’s uncle undertook to send him to Naseby, and on aocused’s undertaking not to further injure his stepfather, bail £ was allowed, accused in £2OO and one surety of like amount or two of £IOO each.