GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 272, 14 May 1912, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

A CHARGE OF ASSAULT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston N.. Monday. In the Magistrate's Court this morning, a. young mnn named Ernest Vincent was charged with assaulting Gertrude Humphreys, with using obscene language, and assaulting Frederick Groves, an old man. Witnesses stated that both assaults were severe, the old man being knocked down twice by accused for no apparent reason, and when the woman interfered she was also struck. Accused was fined C 5 on each assault charge, in default 14 days' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative, whilst the obscene language, charge, was dismissed.

LICE-INFECTED SHEEP. Palmerston X., Monday. \ Two farmers were fined £1 each and costs for exposing lice-infeete<l sheep for sale. Another was fined a similar amount for allowing a horse to wander on the, railwav. the animal being run into by a train and killed. THEFT FROM A STEAMER. j Auckland, Monday. Two young men, .Tolni Rigg and Robert Pomeroy, charged with stealing from the steamer Aorangi, on April 20, a suit ease containing about £()0 worth of jewellery, were, before the Police Court to-dav. They were found guilty and committed to the Supreme Court ifor sentence. Accused :• =• .-istrit j steward* on the Aoraniji on the run | from Sydney to Wellington.