NEW ZEALAND-NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 September 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND-NEWS.

MA3TERTON SUPREME COURT. * MASTERTGN, this day. At the Supreme Court this morning David B. Wallace, a soldier who pleaded guilty to causing bodily harm to William Cherry, by running into him with a motor car, was ordered to pay Cherry fifty pounds. Charles MeLennan, charged With the theft of eighteen pounds from one Crawford, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention. Richten, for the theft of a diamond ring, was sentenced to eighteen months' reformative detention. ALLEGED BIGAMY. WELLINGTON this da;-. At the Magistrate's Court Cha:-Ic-, William Groves;.; a. .soldier, was remanded on a charge cf bigamy by going through- a marriage ceremony with Pearl Alice" Wring, his wife being still alive. Ernest Hpnry McKay was also charged witlv'bigamy in marrying succesively Ivy Alice Lafitte at Auckland in April, 19IT, and Pearl Catherine Chidgey, at Christchurch in September 1917. When arrested accused told the police he thought his wife had divorced him. He pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence, bail being refused. AN UNINVITED STRANGER. WELLINGTON, this day. A mare child, about a year old, was found in the Convent grounds at KHbirnie last evening. The infant is healthy, well clad, and evidently did not come from a poor home. He was lying in a smart new push cart. A note atached to the child's clothes asked: "Will you please bring ur> this child in your~faith?" The police took charge of the infant which n i: :e meantime remains in the receiving home.