GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1917, Page 4

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A SERIOUS CHARGE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland-, Nov. 5. Tn the Police Court, Hannah Matilda Dal ton, who keeps a nursing home in Auckland, wag charged with having performed an illegal operation. Counsel for accused stated that the young woman concerned died this morning, and the charge would have to he amended. fi.e asked for a remand. Percy Norman Henry was charged with aiding "Hannah Dalton in the unlawful use of an instrument. Both cases were adjourned till Friday.

CHIEF JUSTICE OK GAMBLING.

Wellington, Nov. ">. In charging the Grand •fury in the Supreme Court to-day. the Chief Justice,' referring to the charges of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers, said that although it was an interesting ease it was disgraceful that such a case should coma hefore the court. It opened up the question whether they, as citizens, were going to permit the continuation of gambling in these times of strain and stress. It was inconceivable that so'much time and money should be wasted in gambling when the very nation was engaged in a struggle for life and existence, when many homes were mourning for the loss of dear ones. It was a reflection on the Railway Department that its clerks, should be engaged in gambling instead of attending to their pu"blic duties. It seemed there must be some lack of control if clubs were able to use a direct wire betvVeen Trcntham and Wellington' rn order to transmit the results of horse races.

PAPAROA STRIKE ENDED.

I Greymouth, Nov. 5. The Paparoa mine resumed work today after a two days' strike over a dispute in connection with cutting the precibc* size of props for timbering underground. The settlement was a Compromise.

isSAULT ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Dunedin, Yesterday. Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., gave judgment in the case in which a fireman on a transport, named James Ferguson, was charged-with assaulting £he first and fourth engineers of the ship. The legal points raised by Mr. Hanlon for the defence were that it was not proved the ship was on the high seas ; and that the ship, being a transport, was exempt from the Shipping afid Seamen's Act. The Magistrate upheld the latter point, holding that a s'hip being engaged in transport work connoted complete control and possession by the Crown, which possession wquld bo incomplete with subjection to the provision in the Shipping and Seamen's Act. The Magistrate amended the charge in respect of the first engineer to one of committing an assault on a British ship on the high seas, and sentenced Ferguson to two months. The charge respecting the fourth engineer was dismissed, the Magistrate stating that it appeared the officer could have avoided the fight, but decided to deal with the offender after the methods of Captain Kettle.