THE COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 304, 19 December 1908, Page 2

THE COURT.

CHARGE OP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association, lnvercargill, Last Night. A married woman named Robina jjires was charged at Police Court with attempted suicide by taking an overdose of laudunuiu. She was ordered to come for sentence when called upon. CHARGE OP SELLING TROUT. lnvercargill, Last Night. Three men were to-day charged at the Police Court with netting trout at the New River estuary within half a mile of Puni Creek, in which trout exists. Evidence was given that the ranger saw 'the men openly netting arid confiscated the boat oars and 'nets, though they said they did not know they were committing a breach. The defence was that Puni creek was no trout stream within the meaning of the Act; that it was partly a town sewer and trout did not have their habitat there. The Magistrate dismissed the case on the ground that Puni creek could not reasonably be called a trout stream. BOY BICYCLE THIEVES. lnvercargill, Last Night. Two boys were convicted at the Police Court to-day with stealing a bike from the side of a church on a Sunday evening some weeks hack. They took the machine, put the tyres and other parts on their own bikes, and threw the rest into a creek. The Magistrate said ho intended to make the town a, "place where people could leave their bikes in safety when they turned their hacks. One boy, 10 years of age, was ordered to pay damages and costs amounting to £O, and the other, Ift years of age, was sentenced to a. month's imprisonment.