DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

SENTENCE "FOR INDECENT ASSAULT. (Per Press Association.) Wanganui, February 27. An old man narked Alexander Waugh was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in the Supreme Court this morning for attempted indecent assault on a little girl. ALLEGED PERJURY. Auckland, February 27. At tho Supreme Court Walter Edmund Harvey was charged with perjury in stating at the inquest on Evans, killed during the Waihi riot, that he did not have a revolver at Karangahake, and had not pointed it at another miner. The evidence showed that Harvey said at the inquest he had never carried a revolver in New Zealand. Three miners declared that he pointed a revolver in their direction, and they said he had the men covered. No evidence was called on behalf of the prisoner. LIQUOR FINES. • . - New Plymouth, February 27. In the S.M. Court this morning, three'residents of tho Mokau district were each fined £5 and costs £8 6s Hd for keeping liquor for sale in a prohibited area and having liquor delivered without the contents being registered and marked on the cases. Another defendant was fined £2 and costs 15s for obtaining liquor to be delivered in a prohibited area without notifying the vendor of that fact.