GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE HATPIN CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Invereargll, Last Night. A young woman named Josepha Kennelly, charged with assaulting James Potts with a hatpin and causing him serious bodily harm, appeared at the Magistrate's Court and was remanded to enable the evidence of the police and medical attendant to be taken at Tapanui. Inspector Norwood stated that Potts was in a serious condition.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. • Tnvercargill, Last Night. Cuthbera Edward Lamont, dentist, of Otautau, was convicted and discharged on a charge of attempting to commit suicide at Riverton withchlorodine. A prohibition order was issued against him.

LICENSING CASES. Invercargill, Last Night. Robert Stewart, licensee of the dull Hotel, and Michael John Crowe, licensee of the Bay View Hotel., both of the Bluff, were charged with allowing a person under '2l years of age to be supplied with liquor. Richard Finnerty, barman at the Club Hotel, and Donald Cameron and Mary Daniels, employed at the Bay View Hotel, were conjointly charged with serving a person tinder 21 years of age with liquor. The defence was that the persons supplying the liquor were under the impression that the youth was over the age limit. The Magistrate said that the mistake was made by the bar employees, but the licensees were responsible, although in this case they were morally innocent. Barmen or barmaids who made such mistakes ought to pay their own fines. It as clearly evident that a breach had been committed, and he would give his decision in a few days.