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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43080, 11 April 1907, Page 2

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(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day-

Advice has been received that Robert Gibb, late hotel-keeper at Neavesville, Thames, was arrested at Honolulu on the arrival of the Sierra from Auckland, on a charge of obtaining £l2 from Alexander Johnston, licensee of the Empire Hotel, Auckland by means of false pretences. He was brought before the Honolulu Court and remanded pending the production of an extradition wan ant. A detective will be sent from Auckland by the next boat. At the Arbitration Court a case against a firm for failing to mark goods as factory made, was dismissed on the ground of being too trumpery. Another firm on the charge of stamping garments “ factory made, equal to tailor.made,” was also dismissed with a caution. A scheme of reconstruction of the New May Queen Company involving the important undertaking of testing the deep levels at Thames was approved by a meeting, the cost being estimated at from £19,000 to £29000. Government offered a subsidy for a suitable scheme and Thames Borough has promised £IOOO. Application will be made to both. NAPIER, This Day.

In the case in which a justice of the peace was charged at the Magistrates Court with perjury, accused made the defence that the evidence which formed the subject of the charge, referred to a time when he was intoxicated and that his evidence had been knowingly false. The magistrate in dismissing the case said he thought, however, that it was a very extraordinary thing that a person who had to get out of a serious offence like this by the defence that he was diunk and did not know what he was doing, should hold a commission of the peace, and he would have to consider seriously whether to make representations to the Department of Jnstice about the matter.