Last Look Round

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 13

Last Look Round

Fight Brings in £960 . The takings at the Leckie-Barber fight at Dunedin on Saturday amounted to £960. —P.A. * * * Quake at Waihi A short, but very pronounced earth tremor was felt in Waihi at 6.15 this morning. The direction was north to south. # * Gaol for Language. F. Hatiner was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment without the option ot a fine by Messrs. C. H. Chissell and F. Farmer. J.P.’s, in the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court this morning for obscene language on Saturday. The police said he had a list of previous convictions. Stolen Car A Clyno motor-car, belonging to Mr. Trevor Rhodes Williams, of Lake Road, Devonport, was stolen from outside his residence between 11.30 o’clock on Saturday evening and six o’clock on Sunday morning. It bad not been recovered at a late hour to^-day. Prisoners Sentenced At the Christchurch Supreme Court to-day Mr. Justice Adams sentenced Walter Patrick Murphy, alias Murray, to three years* reformative detention on charges of breaking and entering, and theft. A youth of 17, who pleaded guilty to assault with intent on a female, was sentenced to five years’ in a Borstal Institute. # Family’s Hasty Exit A fire at Christchurch last evening destroyed a house owned and occupied bv Mr. J. Grant Mackie, in Hoon Hay Road. The occupants of the house, Mr. Mackie and his family, including Mr. W. Mackie, the well-known cyclist, had little time to escape. The house was insured for £1,500 in the Phoenix Office and the furniture for £7OO with the Australian Alliance Company. Canvasser’s Thefts William Henry Danvers, aged 22, pleaded guilty to three oharges of theft bv misappropriation, at the Gisborne Police Court to-day. He was admitted to probation for 1— months, ■focused was employed as a book canvasser by a Dunedin firm, and the amounts ' unaccounted for were received at Woodville, Cambridge and Matamata. * * » False Alarms Cost £2O To seven charges of giving falsa alarms of fire, David Hull, aged, 27 years, pleaded guilty at the Christchurch Police Court this morning. He was fined £2O in it fault of one month’s imprisonment, the magistrate, Mr. E. Mosley, remarking: “You can consider yourself mighty lucky 1 do not send vou to gaol.” Counsel said accused had been drinking heavily. An officer of the Fire Brigade had surprised Hull breaking an alarm box on Saturday. Sir Truby King and Rotarians. Delayed on the liner Niagara, which reached Auckland this afternoon, New Zealand's authority on child welfare, Sir Truby King, was unable to address Auckland Rotarians at their luncheon to-day. The Rev. Grant Cowcn spoke in Sir Truby’s stead and told of social work in the city.